If I could be photographed by anyone in the world, Tim Walker would be up there with the likes of Cartier Bresson. It’s a big call but Walker’s photographs are romantic, crazy, Alice-in-Wonderland trips of colour.
They are extraordinary and most incredibly they are not digitally manipulated. Everything in his photographs are realised in reality. They represent the finished product of an immense design effort that encompasses a team of fashion and set designers, models, giant hand-built or sourced props, unique locations and everything else in between.
His exhibition Story Teller at Somerset House, London, displays some of his bespoke props alongside his quirky and unique visions, which have been published for many years in Vogue (American, British, French and Italian versions).
As I jostled for viewing space in this heavily popular exhibition (it seemed that half of London’s fashion students had like me left it to the final day), I was drawn to his consistent use of flowers. Like his models they are a constant ingredient and take on many forms. Soft and dreamy, hard or seductive, he uses blooms as both a backdrop and the star of the show. Each image is impressively curated much like a bride’s bouquet, and whether on a grand scale or more intimately as seen in the Kate Moss series, Walker’s flowers are a celebration of natural beauty and limitless dreams.
All photographs are by Tim Walker: timwalkerphotography.com
