Tim Walker: Story teller

Tim Walker: STORY TELLER

At Somerset house, one of the best exhibitions I have seen for a long time. It was not just the fact that his photographs are amazing it was the set up of the whole exhibition.. down to every last detail of how it was exhibited. The writing on the wall was never in the same set up, never a simple paragraph but a swirl of writing in circles which often complemented the work it was around. Also one of my favourite parts of the exhibition was the all the props he had used in his photographers were displaced near the photograph it had been featured in. Here is an image below showing the set up. They are even still in their wood packaging with a straw like material still around it. Making it a less intimidating atmosphere as if Tim Walker himself has just taken them out temporarily for people to see.

Behind the scene of one of the shoots that was shown in the exhibition, he is almost like a film director who is a photographer because the set is the most important aspect of the shot.

It is very bizarre because my main focus in all my projects is the figure, However in the exhibition my favourite image is the one shown below of roses in a glass sundae dish and what looks like cream dripping off them. It is so simple however so effective. He has used the colour of the roses that are the classic flavours of ice cream strawberry, chocolate and vanilla. The colours he has used are very much 'Tim Walker' he loves using pastel colours which is shown through out his work. It is something that look at it is beautiful, sweet, happy but a bit isolated at the time. I would love to hang something like this in my room. 

After going to his exhibition it really made me think of the music video by Lily Allen 'The Fear' the colours with the grand old house as the background setting and how the props were the main feature in the video.