Tim Walker at Somerset House

Tim Walker at Somerset House – Victoria Embankment, London.

Blackfriars or Embankment stations.

Until 27 January 2013
Daily 10.00-18.00
East Wing Galleries, East Wing
Free admission

Tim Walker is one of the most  visually exciting and influential fashion photographers working today. Extravagant in scale and ambition and instantly recognisable for their eye-opening originality, Walker’s photographs dazzle with life, colour and humour.
Everything in Walker’s pictures is specially constructed and there are installations and a selection of the extraordinary props and models on show: giant grotesque dolls for Italian Vogue and an almost life-size replica of a doomed Spitfire fighter plane.

The photo shoot begins to resemble the film set: hair and make-up artists, fashion stylists and costume fitters, model makers, set designers, builders, producers and painters, prop suppliers and a cast of models playing out imagined roles. 

Also at Somerset House............................

 A Question of Colour until 27 January 2013

Daily 10.00-18.00.
Terrace Rooms & Courtyard Rooms, South Wing
Free admission

This is an excellent documentary photography exhibition featuring 10 Cartier-Bresson photographs never before exhibited in the UK alongside over 75 works by 14 international acclaimed photographers.

 This extensive exhibition illustrates how photographers working in Europe and North America adopted and adapted the master's ethos famously known as the ‘decisive moment' to their work in colour. 

Other exhibitions:-

National Portrait Gallery - Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize Exhibition + Thomas Struth exhibition of 5 large works.

National Gallery - Richard Hamilton Exhibition (free) + 'Seduced by Art' exhibition