168.0K
Followers
0
Following
282
Posts
N/A
Reels
N/A
Highlights
12/0
Photos/Videos in last 12
Bio
all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream
-
Avg likes
-
Avg comments
-
Engagement
2.8/wk
Posting
Likes and comments are still being collected for this account. Check back shortly.
Recent posts
I’ve listened to Kate’s music since I was a teenager. It was playing as I printed my very first pictures in the darkroom in my early 20s, and as I drove along country lanes thinking of photographs I wanted to make in my 30s and 40s. Eventually, we collaborated on photographs for the album art for Director’s Cut (2011) and Before the Dawn (2014). Her music has always been there for me. I love it.
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
Kate Bush and Blackbird, 2011
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Sitter: Kate Bush @katebushmusic
06 Nov 2026
In the darkness of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s, glimmers of hope remained. Gay musicians soundtracked our lives and the brilliance of their music boomed despite the fear of death and discrimination.
Scottish musician Jimmy Somerville was an original member of the synth-pop band Bronski Beat, with Steve Bronski (1960–2021) and Larry Steinbachek (1960–2016). Their 1984 debut album, The Age of Consent, included the gay anthem ‘Smalltown Boy’.
‘I’m humbled by the power and the longevity of ‘Smalltown Boy’ … It came from a journey, it came from yearning, it came from anger. When you come out, you suddenly start to identify with so many different people. At the core you all have the same story, and when you share that journey with people it’s so liberating, it also gives you courage, strength, hope, and it allows you to believe in yourself.’ — Jimmy Somerville
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
1. Jimmy Somerville Holding Candle, London, 2024
2-3. Behind The Scenes Film
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Production: Alex Pasley-Tyler @alexpt1
Photo Assistant: Antonio Perricone @antonioperricone
BTS: Molly Overstall Khan @mol.okay and Antonio Perricone @antonioperricone
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
Sitter: Jimmy Sommerville @jimmysomervilleofficial
04 Nov 2026
In the darkness of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s, glimmers of hope remained. Gay musicians soundtracked our lives and the brilliance of their music boomed despite the fear of death and discrimination.
Lead vocalist of new wave pop duo Soft Cell, Marc Almond’s music filled dance floors in gay clubs during the 1980s. His 1985 cover of ‘I Feel Love’ with Bronski Beat became a definitive anthem for the LGBTQ+ community. In 2018 he was appointed OBE for services to arts and culture.
‘When I became famous at the beginning of the ’80s, I was told “you can’t be out, because your career will be ruined, we need to invent a persona for you.” By 1987 I’d had enough; I was doing an interview and the journalist looked through my record collection and found my Judy Garland records and said “You must be gay?” I said “Of course!” I didn’t think I needed to explain it to anybody.’ — Marc Almond
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
1. Marc Almond and Bone Crucifix, London, 2024
2. Behind The Scenes Film
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Make Up: Terry Barber @terrybarberonbeauty
Production: Alex Pasley-Tyler @alexpt1
Photo Assistant: Antonio Perricone @antonioperricone
BTS: Ruby Pluhar @rubypluhar
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
Sitter: Marc Almond @marcalmondofficial
02 Nov 2026
Russell T Davies is a screenwriter and television producer of shows including Queer as Folk (1999–2000) and It’s A Sin (2021).
On writing It’s A Sin, he says: ‘Almost every line in the show had been said by someone I knew once upon a time … When it was being transmitted, I had the honour of being approached by complete strangers in the street, sometimes men and women in their 70s or 80s, telling me how they’d been nurses or social workers during the crisis, how they’d held the hands of the dying, and then never spoken of it again.’
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
1. Russell T Davies Wearing It’s A Sin Script (full length), Swansea, 2024
2. Unpublished idea sketch
3. Russell T Davies Wearing It’s A Sin Script, Swansea, 2024
4. Unpublished idea sketch
5-6. Behind The Scenes film
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Production: Alex Pasley-Tyler @alexpt1
Photo Assistants and BTS: Antonio Perricone @antonioperricone and Isabel MacCarthy @isabelmaccarthy
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
Sitter: Russell T Davies @russelltdavies63
30 Oct 2026
Graham McKerrow was co-founder with Michael Mason of Capital Gay, a weekly gay newspaper in circulation across London and Brighton (1981–95). He holds the first news report of UK cases of what would later be called AIDS. Capital Gay was the first publication include a regular column about the HIV and AIDS, which was written by Julian Meldrum.
‘We were a team of people who did a remarkable job of keeping our community informed in the face of horrible prejudice. The government sat on their hands for four or five years while the gay community organised, educated, informed and looked after each other. I adore our community, we’re very inventive and very strong.’ — Graham McKerrow
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
1. Graham McKerrow Holds First News Report on HIV in the UK, London, 2025
2-3. Behind The Scenes Film
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Production: Jess Briscoe-Stagg @jessica__stagg
Photo Assistants: Antonio Perricone @antonioperricone Isabel MacCarthy @isabelmaccarthy
BTS: Molly Overstall Khan @mol.okay and Antonio Perricone @antonioperricone
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
Sitter: Graham McKerrow @grahambythesea
28 Oct 2026
It’s 1987, I’m 16 and watching in horror as the giant tombstone rears up on our family television and the words ‘AIDS: Don’t Die of Ignorance’ are beamed into our sitting room. Barely a decade on from the good gay marching of the 1970s, here was a disease to send Queer liberation and me back into the closet. Stories in the mainstream news were grossly misreported and muddled. It was terrifying. Four decades on, we are still processing the trauma, but effective treatments now mean that people with HIV can expect to live a normal life. We have come so far. Thank you to the tireless doctors, nurses and caregivers whose work achieved so much.
Jonathan Weber CBE is a professor of medicine who began researching HIV in 1982 and helped to develop antiretroviral therapy in the 1990s.
Tony Whitehead MBE is an HIV/AIDS activist and first chair of the Terrence Higgins Trust. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1984 and was one of the first to be saved by combination therapy.
Jane Bruton was the Sister on Broderip, the HIV ward at the Middlesex Hospital during the AIDS crisis. She spent her nursing career creating HIV services that felt less clinical, more safe and welcoming.
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
1. Jonathan Weber, Tony Whitehead and Jane Bruton, London, 2024
2-5. Behind The Scenes Film
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Groomer: Darren Evans @dazzaroid
Lighting: Jon Hose, Light Electric @lightelectric
Lighting Assistant: Noli Cavolli @noli.cavolli
Production: Jess Briscoe-Stagg @jessica__stagg
Photo Assistants: Antonio Perricone @antonioperricone Isabel MacCarthy @isabelmaccarthy
BTS: Molly Overstall Khan @mol.okay, Antonio Perricone @antonioperricone and Ruby Pluhar @rubypluhar
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
Sitters: Jonathan Weber, Tony Whitehead & Jane Bruton @janebruton53
26 Oct 2026
After graduating art college, I wrote to lots of photographers in New York, the then photography capital of the world, to ask if I could assist them. Richard Avedon wrote back, so I packed my bags and got on the plane. It was the early 1990s and New York felt more gay than anywhere I’d been before. I felt excited and scared. Avedon taught me about encouraging a performance, particularly when photographing people who had never performed. The photographer has to engage with the sitter’s inner child and play games. I think the emptiness of his portraits was the point. No bells and whistles. A photographer is always looking for a true gesture. Avedon taught me that.
Arriving in New York, I was reminded of the pictures the handsome Indian-Canadian photographer Sunil Gupta took on Christopher Street in the 1970s. His early work documented the gay scene in Manhattan, after the Stonewall Uprising and before the AIDS crisis. He kindly showed me original contact sheets of his work when I went to photograph him in South London.
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
1. Sunil Gupta, London, 2023
2. Tea at Sunil’s, London, 2023
3. Original Contact Sheets of The 1976 Christopher Street series
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Photo Assistant: Antonio Perricone @antonioperricone
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
Sitter: Sunil Gupta @sunilgupta7402
21 Oct 2026
When I was a student, Duane Michals was a photographer that I went back to again and again because there was a sense of queerness to his storytelling that resonated with my young gay self. I guess you’d describe some of his photos as subtly homoerotic and fairyish. Fairie-esque.
He was a king of telling stories with pictures. In 2023, I went to NYC to make Duane’s portrait and it was one of the best days of my life — meeting someone who was such a huge influence on me. We spent much of the day re-enacting some of my favourite pictures of his. SO MUCH FUN. Duane sadly passed away in June 2026. A story told brilliantly — a life lived better.
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
1. Portrait of Duane Michals, New York City, 2023
2. Self Portrait As Someone Else, Duane Michals, New York City, 2023
3. The Spirit Leaves The Body, Duane Michals, New York City, 2023
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Production: Wei-Li Wang at Hudson Hill Production @weiliwang83
Photo Assistant: Antonio Perricone @antonioperricone
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
Sitter: Duane Michals @theduanemichals
20 Oct 2026
The following summer I returned to making more queer fairies. Here King Joe sports a motheaten bow tie in a floral tornado.
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
Joe Sweeney as Fairy King, London, 2022
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Casting: Madeleine Østlie @aamo_casting
Production: Alex Pasley-Tyler @alexpt1
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
Model: Joe Sweeney @joesweeneyltd
16 Oct 2026
Post-Covid I was looking for a different type of photograph — and at that time I was interested in 16th century paintings of the seasons by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. I would frequent The National Gallery to look for photographic clues in ancient paintings. I took this photograph of the young model Primrose Archer and enlarged the pictures - printing them as large prints. I then collected roses from my garden and began placing them over Primrose. Rose hips became crowns, dried petals became elegant leather shoes.
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
1. Primrose Archer as Flower Fairy, London, 2020
2. Spring by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london Magazine: British Vogue @britishvogue
Editor: Edward Enninful @edward_enninful
Styling: Kate Phelan @kphelan123
Hair: Cyndia Harvey @cyndiaharvey
Make Up: Sam Bryant @sambryantmakeup
Set Design: Gary Card @garycard
Casting: Madeleine Østlie @aamo_casting
Production: Jeff Delich @delichproject
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
Models: Primrose Archer @primrosearcher
12 Oct 2026
The idea for this exhibition came in 2020 while out walking in Highbury Fields. I noticed a small plaque tucked away on the side of a public building. It marked the spot where, 50 years earlier, 150 women and men had gathered to protest for gay liberation. The date of their demonstration was 27th November 1970, the day I was born. The coincidence was too strange. As I took my first breath, these people were fighting for my rights. The liberties I enjoy today as a gay man are indebted to the protesters who carried candles, held hands, and kissed under the watch of police. I wanted to know more… Who were these early activists? Where are they now?
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
1. Poster for Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends at the National Portrait Gallery
2. OUTRAGE! Plaque, Highbury Fields, 2025
3. Ted Brown, Noel Glynn, and Peter Tatchell, Pride March in Hyde Park, London, 1973
4. Dan de la Motte with Andrew Lumsden, Highbury Fields, 2021 (courtesy of Dan de la Motte)
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
09 Oct 2026
In my twenties, thirties and forties, the pictures I made were a manifestation of my innate queerness. It was through photography that my creativity found its place again. The hidden mirror in the camera’s black velvety box forced me to look at myself through the eyes of the people I photographed, because they said ‘who are you?’ as I asked them the same question.
My working life through my thirties and forties has been a journey toward self acceptance, my means of finding my way back to Fairyland. Now, in my fifties, I am finally placing myself in the Queer realm with confidence and greeting all the other friends who live here in Fairyland. I learned from the Queer artists and activists who came before me, some of whom I’ve been lucky enough meet and photograph, and now I have the chance to tell the next generations that you are not alone. Your difference is your power. Difference is a precious and beautiful thing.
See this and more in Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends, an exhibition of over 250 new photographs celebrating Queer activism, community and love at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from October 9th 2026 until February 7th 2027. @nationalportraitgallery
1. Tim Walker with Fairies, London, 2026
Curator: Susanna Brown @suzy_brown_london
Printing: Graeme Bulcraig @retouchandprint
07 Oct 2026
Follower tracking
We have started recording @timwalker, but only 1 observation so far — not enough to show a trend yet. Track it daily →
Download @timwalker's data
Everything below is derived from this account, priced on the counts shown. Delivered as CSV by emailed link.
You only pay for rows we deliver. Counts are the maximum available today; if an export comes back smaller, the difference is refunded automatically. Counts as last collected 20 hours, 49 minutes ago.
Tracking
A monthly plan, not a download: we keep reading @timwalker and email you what changed.
Other reports
Not downloads of this account: they take their own inputs.
Similar accounts
Accounts we track that share hashtags, mentions or bio topics with @timwalker.
@russelltdavies63
316.8K followers
Also mentions @alexpt1
@danasupnick
14.9K followers
Also mentions @edward_enninful
@alipirzadeh
33.6K followers
Also mentions @antonioperricone
@arnold_daniel
394.1K followers
Also mentions @theduanemichals
@cherylnewman1
6,216 followers
Also mentions @suzy_brown_london
@bernardineevaristo
59.6K followers
Also mentions @russelltdavies63
@jack_bridgland_studio
383.6K followers
Also mentions @garycard
@dinaashersmith
381.0K followers
Also mentions @edward_enninful