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Tim Walker —
British
Photographer
born on December 30, 1970,
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Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.
You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'
It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.
When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.
