Tim Walker

Timothy Walker HonFRPS (born 1970) is a British fashion photographer who regularly works for Vogue, W and Love magazines. He is based in London.

Life and career Walker was born in England in 1970. 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.

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.

In 2019, Walker photographed the album artwork for Harry Styles' second album, Fine Line.

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.

Exhibitions Pictures, Design Museum, London, 2008 Story Teller, Somerset House, London, 2012–2013 Dreamscapes, Bowes Museum, Durham, UK, 2013. Curated by Greville Worthington. Work beyond the pages of Vogue and Vanity Fair. Wonderful Things, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2019–2020, Galleries 38 and 38a

Publications Walker's book The Garden of Earthly Delights was inspired by the Hieronymous Bosch painting of the same name. Tim Walker. Stern Portfolio. teNeues, 2006. Pictures. teNeues, 2008. The Lost Explorer. teNeues, 2011. Story Teller. Thames & Hudson, 2012. . The Granny Alphabet. Thames & Hudson, 2013. . The Garden of Earthly Delights. Shoot for the Moon. Thames & Hudson, 2019. . Wonderful Things, V&A 2019.

Films Short films directed by Walker The Lost Explorer (BBC Films, 2010) The Mechanical Man of the Moon (2014) The Muse (2014) The Magic Paintbrush (2016)

Music videos co-directed by Walker "Blissing Me" (2017) by Björk – co-directed with Emma Dalzell

Awards Isabella Blow award for Fashion Creator from The British Fashion Council, 2008 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, New York City, 2009 Best short film, Chicago United Film Festival, 2011, for The Lost Explorer Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Photographic Society, 2012

Collections Walker's work is held in the following permanent collections: Victoria and Albert Museum, London: 9 prints (as of 19 December 2023) National Portrait Gallery, London: 2 prints (as of 19 December 2023)