TIM BOOTH
Cluster Exhibitor | Photography & Print Fair 2022
Tim Booth’s instantly recognisable shooting style echoes across both his portraiture and landscape work, deceptively simple and shunning unnecessary elaboration, his photographs are often both profound and affecting. Winner of many international awards,
his work has appeared in countless magazines and fine art publications and is collected worldwide.
He began taking photographs with his father’s camera
at the age of eight. By the time he was a teenager
he’d bought his first SLR, thrown on a backpack and headed off around Europe. Infected by both travel
and photography he spent several years shooting freelance features for most of the UK’s weekend magazines and newspapers in Africa, Pakistan and South East Asia.
Once settled back in the UK he shot commercial, corporate and design work from his London studio whilst also pursuing personal projects. His commercial work for advertising and design agencies spans three decades.
Ever bitten by the travel bug, his first exhibition ‘Into the Light’ was shot whilst on assignments in Africa. However, it is his seminal ‘A Show of Hands’ project and award-winning book which brought him international recognition. A Show of Hands has been featured in the Sunday Telegraph, BBC online, National Geographic, in many photographic publications and more recently was featured in a Radio 4 three-part program on hands. Both the book and the collection have received numerous international awards.
Mile | 2018
Mist | 2020
Parog II | 2016
DRIFT is a mesmerising collection of colour images that explores the timelessness of twilight on the coast near where he lives. His imagery uses long exposures and camera movement to paint the dusk and you find yourself being drawn in and transported almost to another time.
“My Drift series sets out to evoke the sense of timelessness felt on the coast at twilight. I live in area rich in fossils and am often struck at how when looking out to sea at dusk it could be any age stretching back in time.
Twilight is an ethereal experience but the moment, whilst transient, is still more than be can be captured in the fraction of a second it takes to capture an image. For Drift I use a combination of longer exposures and specific camera movement to draw out the moment and light-paint with the soft colours and textures. A photograph is after all a light drawing.”
Adrift | 2017
Westward | 2016
Foreshore | 2020
Hush | 2020
Slik | 2017
Lyme Bay | 2015