Tim Walker
Tim Walker is an English photographer who has photographed for Vogue on numerous occasions for over a decade. Walker completed a three year degree in Photography at Exeter College of Art and was awarded the third prize as The Independent Young Photographer of the Year. Walker worked as a freelance photographer assistant in London after graduating and then worked as the assistant to Richard Avedon in NYC. His first exhibition was at the Design Museum in 2008, London which was at the same time as the publication of his book ‘Pictures’. Walker shot his first short film ‘The Lost Explorer’ in 2010 which was showed at Locamo Film Festival in Switzerland which went on to win best short film at the Chicago United Film Festival in 2011. He also had an exhibition at Somerset House which also coincided with the publication of his book ‘Story Teller’. Time Walkers work has also been exhibited in The V&A Museum and The National Portrait Gallery, the ‘Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator’ by the British Fashion Council in 2008 and the ‘Infinity Award’ from the International Centre of Photography in 2009 and an Honouree Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.
Tim Walker often includes extravagant staging
and romantic motifs. I really like Walkers work as it often has a quite
mystical and fairy tale quality to it. The scenes he creates are unrealistic
and magical. They commonly incorporate nature through plants and animals which
he juxtaposes with manmade objects, like cars or the interior of a house.
I think this photograph is really interesting
and unique. The oversized, unrealistic wasps appear to show control and defeat.
The wasps are also quite blurry and out of focus which gives the impression
that not only they are alive, but that they are moving. This is very intriguing
as these wasps are 3D sculptures made of paper. I like how the background is
quite plain which draws your attention to the foreground, however, the
background doesn’t seem to be straight which I don’t like but I feel does
relate to the panic and movement of the scene in the photograph.