Photographer: Tim Walker

Tim Walker is a British Creative Fashion and Portrait photographer who has been known to shoot Editorials regularly for magazines such as Vogue and W magazine. Walkers style is very particular and has become very well known in the fashion industry. Fairytales are often portrayed in a realistic way with minimal enhancement from photoshop. Walkers career started by assisting fellow photographer Richard Avedon who was a well known American Fashion and Portrait photographer, famous for his Portraits of Celebrities.

I Like the work of Tim Walkers because of the way he uses everyday locations with extravagant props to make his photographs somehow more fairytale like and brings these stories we often imagine in our minds into a realistic light and manages to merge the abnormal with the normal. His work often uses props which reflect the story and help tell it rather than using the likes of photoshop. The stories he chooses to tell also represent the clothing he is showing in the photographs he takes. For example for a dainty  gown he may choose to tell the story of a princess, such as the photograph above showing a girl lying on many mattresses which represents the story of the 'princess and the pea' and for a designer who makes jackets maybe something more rebellious, such as the photo above which represents the story of 'Humpty Dumpty' a well know children's rhyme.

Tim walker also mixes the clothing, props and surroundings well by making sure they all coincide and merge together in terms of colour. An example of this would be the First photograph in this post where walker has mixed the colour of the sand, styling and props together to create a predominantly Red, Orange and Pink image. This is then emphasised with slight colour grading which seemingly warm up the images.