From celebrities to activists, authors and scientists, Walker honors both the trailblazers who fought for LGBTQ+ equality and the generations standing on their shoulders
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Published by National Portrait Gallery. Text By Susanna Brown, Lisa Power, Shon Faye, Joelle Taylor, Russell T Davies, Travis Alabanza.
A fashion-world phenomenon since his first editorial shoot for Vogue at 25 years old, photographer Tim Walker debuts his most personal and profound series yet—a new body of work dedicated to queer identity, love and community. Within this enchanted volume, readers join Walker as he charts a mythic journey across half a century of activism, through portraits that range from the fantastical and exuberant to the intimate and grounded. Many will recognize Ncuti Gatwa, Chappell Roan or Harry Styles, but Walker also celebrates the unsung heroes, including the health professionals and medical researchers working at the front line of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Complemented by incisive and illuminating essays from Russell T Davies, Shon Faye, Travis Alabanza, Lisa Power and Joelle Taylor, Fairyland is a place where everyone has the freedom to be themselves, a vivid tapestry of Walker’s many inspirations and influences. Tim Walker (born 1970) studied photography at the Exeter College of Art and Design and worked as an assistant to Richard Avedon. His work regularly appears in Vogue, W and Vanity Fair. Walker’s recent projects include his 2019–20 exhibition Wonderful Things at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the cover for Harry Styles’ sophomore album Fine Line.
Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited by Veit Görner, Caroline Käding. Text by Robin Muir, Caroline Käding.
A model, dressed in what resembles a flapper’s spacesuit, crouches among disco mirror-balls that send showers of light across an attic room; in another scene, dresses lit from within hang like Chinese lanterns from a tree; in yet another, a motley crew of children play on a beach among the ruins of a giant cardboard swan. The English fashion photographer Tim Walker, born in 1970 in Devon, has a fondness for such dream-logic scenarios. His models often occupy fantastical and elaborate sets whose baroque props rhyme with their costumes in subtle and sometimes wistful ways; one senses immediately that a great deal of effort has gone into the construction of these sets. Formerly assistant to photography legend Richard Avedon, and having made a name for himself in the pages of American, British, Italian and Japanese editions of Vogue, Walker is currently one of the world’s most influential fashion photographers, alongside Steven Meisel, Jürgen Teller and Nick Knight. This volume is the first to present Walker’s complete works to date.
Tim Walker