Arts, design and living-Film studies.

 Vogue-page .177 the September 2010 edition

"Photographer Tim Walker's unique brand of English fantasia is making a leap to moving pictures.By Charlotte Sinclair.'

 Tim Walker's photographs have entertained the readers of Vogue from month to month for over a decade, by his extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterize his unmistakable style. But now he has a new love for film making. This has all steamed from his desire to express himself more clearly.

Charlotte Sinclair said. "He’s a Peter Pan, a daydreamer, a fantasist. His pictures are mirages, telling stories conjured directly from an imagination that most of us left behind in childhood. Looking at Tim’s photographs is like following the white rabbit into a world where elephants are painted blue, horses are dusted lilac, paintings come to life and pretty girls with Thirties faces are transformed into marionettes or abandoned princesses," about Tim.

These have all been featured in Vogue.

Walker's first short film is strongly related to his background of extravagant photographs, reflecting his personality. The film is called 'The Lost Explorer, is biased on Patrick McGrath's short story in which a young girl, Evelyn, finds a Victorian explorere in a tent at the bottom of her garden."

His film has been said to "capture the sadness of suburbia, the boredom and satisfaction"The film is set to take Evelyn from childhood to adulthood, and from what I have read withing this artical I have come to the conclusion that Tim himself is going on a life journey. From going into film making from phtotography, he now has to think about how to finds ways to get the emotions of his characters to the audience through speech rather than still images. Charlotte quoted that he said, "if I was photographing that set, I would spend three days working in that room, and you'd get two pictures that captures the beauty of it. We had to do this scene in a matter of hours."


To make his films he received funding from Mulberry, thats looking to support  cultural projects and also Juicy Coutures founder Gela Nash-Taylor.

He followed the famous three rules of film making when he produced his film,

1. The story has to come first.
2. The acting.
3. The visuals.

The hardest part for Tim was finding the perfect actors to fit the description of the characters, Richard Bremmer played the Victorian explorer and Olivia Campbell played Evelyn. All the actors that worked on the film didn't recive any money for there work.

I was truly inspired by Tim Walker after reading and doing some research about him. He has an unusual take on art, but he has a great love for what he does. He is very ambitious and knows what he wants to do, he has many reasons for going into the film industry. His background of photography has help him immensely. This shows that with a passionate background you can go anywhere as long as you have a drive to be successful within you.

"The Lost Explorer," will be resealed on DVD in the new year, for more information visit www.timwalkerphotograohy.com