Tim Walker’s ‘Wonderful Things’ Exhibition

One of the biggest names in fashion photography, Tim Walker will showcase his best work at a new exhibition in London’s V&A museum starting this weekend. 

For a quarter of a century, Tim Walker has been gracing us with his dreamily surreal images that often seem like something straight out of a Lewis Caroll novel.

The visionary British fashion photographer is renowned for his combination of romantic motifs and extravagant staging that come together to transport the viewer out of their reality and right into his imagination.

‘Taking photographs, to me is really a kind of dream state,’ he told Vogue, a magazine which he frequently shoots for. ‘The pictures I take are souvenirs brought back from the daydream.’

His extravagant style, one of unbridled fantasy, makes for quite the perfect fit therefore for an exhibition at such a timelessly eclectic museum.

Taking a slightly different approach this time, Walker is exceeding expectations by drawing inspiration from the V&A’s artifacts themselves.

‘Many of the objects that I saw during my research at the museum made my heart swell and I wanted to try to create a photograph that would relate not only to the physical presence and beauty of that object, but also my emotional reaction to it,’ he said.

Describing the instillation as a ‘love letter’ to the museum’s permanent collection, he spent almost three years wandering the 145 public galleries, climbing to the roof and speaking to the technicians, conservators and curators behind what’s on display for ideas.