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 stori…

- Tim Walker

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.

- Tim Walker

I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I…

- Tim Walker

Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging mysel…

- Tim Walker

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

- Tim Walker

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but …

- Tim Walker

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 - …

- Tim Walker

I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a …

- Tim Walker

I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They r…

- Tim Walker