Timothy "Tim" Walker (born 1970) is a British fashion photographer, who regularly shoots for Vogue, W Magazine and LOVE Magazine. Read full biography of Tim Walker →
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.
Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest... →
Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling... →
Only photograph what you love.
When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling -... →
You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'
I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I... →
I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and... →
Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging... →
Timothy "Tim" Walker (born 1970) is a British fashion photographer, who regularly shoots for Vogue, W Magazine and LOVE Magazine.