Tim Walker is a British fashion photographer who uses extravagant staging/sets and outrageously creative ideas and brings them idea to life. Walker has published 4 books, worked for vogue magazine for over a decade and after 15 years of concentration on photographic stills he has started to direct a number of short films. At The age of 25 he shot his first fashion story for Vogue and has photographed for the British, Italian and American editions ever since.
Tim walkers pure imagination and passion for his shoots really inspires me, his ideas are so creative and his images are honestly breath taking to me. I love his unique style and usage of colours, lighting and 'stages' and how he thinks so out of the box you never know what his next project will involve.
(http://www.timwalkerphotography.com/articles.php?article_ID=3)
Charlotte Sinclair wrote in a review in 2008:
"Fashion photographer Tim Walker doesn't seem to belong to the world of you and me. He's a Peter Pan. A daydreamer. His pictures are mirages, telling stories conjured directly from the imagination that most of us left behind in childhood. Looking at Tim's photography is like following the white rabbit into a whorl where elephants are painted blue, horses are dusted lilac, painting come to life and pretty girls with thirties faces transformed into marionettes or abandoned princesses."
"Tim creates photographs that evoke wonder- a skill as rare and fragile as one of his butterflies. In presenting his imagination to us, his photographs remind us of out own capacity t0 dream and even though his images are pure whimsy, they feel true because they have been meticulously executed."
In November 2008 Tim Walker received the 'Isbella Blow Award for Fashion Creator' and in May 2009 he recieved an infinity award from The International center of Photography in New York for his work as a fashion photographer. In 2010 Walker was a winner of an ASME Award for his 'W' Magazine EastEnders' portfolio.
(Review on Visual Streak.com -http://visualstreak.com/2008/06/07/tim-walker-fashion-photographer/ )
"Tim creates evocative images full of textured nuance and intriguing detail and his innovative photography is amongst the most imaginative and exuberant being produced today. He draws upon his childhood to construct sets for his images that are witty and playful yet sufficiently sophisticated enough to perform for his fashion clients. "
Tim Walkers "advice/information" ( http://matthilde.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/mr-tim-walker-photographer/)
I found out from reading this blog page, blogging notes wrote during a Tim Walker press conference. (link above) that Tim walker prefers natural light when taking photos, he hates artificial lighting, he doesn't use digital cameras as he needs "real" and he wants the "real" to reflect in his images (he uses a Pentax 67). Walkers images show a large production but in the early years he wasn't interested in a big set, he started on a small scale and grew to what he creates nowadays. He himself hates being photographed, he describes it as being "revealing." Tim images are a mix of "ridiculous and individuality." a mixture of contrasting opinions. Tim believes the subject and photographer's relationship is key- he only has one assistant "too many cooks spoil the brew". He sees his work for Vogue as a stepping stone.
Advice he gave to the people listening to the conference:
- Be more instinctive, more within you, people want individuality.
- Be open to anything that can open doors.
- Make the set an extension of your personality, make the subject feel comfortable.
- Sketch the photo you want to take.
- Interpretation and imagination can come fro anywhere- make it happen.
- Be opportunistic, make the most of it and can from it what you can.
Tim Walkers work is so much different to most other photographers work. There's something instantly recognizable about his images and something instantly breath taking and each and every image I've seen of his has held some kind of "wow-factor" be it by depth of field, imagination, composition, lighting etc. Another fashion photographer; Jason Christopher uses a more clean cut style to his images there's no props, not much to the scene around the model or not much of a background other then on location- for the most part the images are all in studio done with a plain block colour background with just the model and the pose to the image although his images are beautiful they are no where near the kind of beauty that Tim Walker captures and creates- it's photography on a whole other level. Walker creates worlds and breaks rules rather then sticking to the tradition methods that other photographers take.
Task 7, Critique.
I think this photo is about the stages of emotions that Brides/soon to be Brides go through when their about to be wed. The first set of emotions being wonder,admiration, happiness and excitement the second set emotions being cold feet, doubts and stress and the last set of images being frightened and in need of escape. I feel that each pose the model is doing is showing these emotions perfectly.
Technically this photo is hard to talk about as the image has a very soft focus but I think this is purposely done as it could connote that the model has lost focus on what she wants as the poses change she gets more out of focus although I do think that if the top half of the model was more sharply in focus is might have more of an impact and be more effective. The slow shutter speed in this photo creates an almost Ghostly feel which I think is a brilliant aspect to the photo- it gives it a haunting feel and makes each pose flow nicely with the next.
what I'd change about this photo is experiment with it colour wise- I do like the blue, drained colour of the image but I'd try this image as black and white too and make it a grey/white colour as I think it could add emotion and more depth to the image.
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