Tim Walker | |
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| Born | 1970 |
| Education | Exeter College of Art and Design |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Years active | 1994 - Present |
| Notable work | Wonderful Things exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Harry Styles' Fine Line album photoshoot |
Timothy Walker HonFRPS (born 1970) is a British fashion photographer who regularly works for Vogue , W and Love magazines. [1] [2] He is based in London. [3]
Walker was born in England in 1970. [4] His interest in photography began at the Condé Nast library in London where he worked on the Cecil Beaton archive for a year before college. [4] After obtaining an HBC in Photography at Exeter College of Art and Design, Walker was awarded a third prize as The Independent Young Photographer Of The Year. [5]
Upon leaving college in 1994, Walker worked as a freelance photographic assistant in London before moving to New York City as a full-time assistant to Richard Avedon. [4] When he returned to England, he initially concentrated on portrait and documentary work for British newspapers. [5] At the age of 25 he shot his first fashion story for Vogue, and has photographed for the British, Italian, and American editions. [4] He has also shot notable covers for W Magazine, i-D, Vanity Fair, Another Man , and Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. [3] [6]
In 2019, Walker shot the album artwork for Harry Styles' second album, Fine Line. [7]
Walker's Wonderful Things exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2019–2020 consisted of 10 rooms containing new projects, each one inspired by various artefacts from the V&A. Over the course of three years, Walker visited the V&A’s numerous storerooms, met with curators and technicians, even scaled the roof of the museum and climbed through the Victorian passages underneath it, in search of the items that would inspire each series. [8] [9]
In late 2023, Walker created controversial campaign imagery for fashion brand Zara, criticized for referencing scenes of destruction and civilian casualties of the ongoing bombings by Israel in the Gaza Strip, and inspiring calls to boycott the brand. Art direction was credited to ad agency Baron & Baron, founded by Chief Creative Officer Fabien Baron. The set designed by Shona Heath included rubble alongside human figures wrapped in white cloth, a traditional burial treatment in Islamic culture. [10]
Walker's work is held in the following permanent collections:
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