CLARE CLARKSON DEVELOPMENT

I had great fun afternoon working with Tim at Media 25 Studio on some new photos! Throughly recommend the studio - they even come complete with a lovely little pooch called Peanut to keep you entertained between shots. Thanks again Tim!

Tim Nathan is excellent! And adventurous! His is personal, highly industrious small studio. Photography, video, websites. Tim is a perfectionist and it is reflected in the end product. The coffee machine is always bubbling aromatically away. Both Tim and Peanut the dog are warm and welcoming presences. Like throwing a Brontosaurus bone to a T.Rex, Tim needs regularly feeding with caramel wafers. His preference is for eight packs.

Each photograph in this series is both a meditation on our relationship with the natural world, and a celebration of its dramatic beauty.
Popular psychology recommends engaging with something bigger than ourselves in order to heal a fragile mind, and Tim has described his personal story in relation to the work as a transformative journey from despair to high spirits. Stepping away from the dubious business of ‘self-expression’ he has instead deployed persistence and quiet discipline to record the daily phenomena of the sea. The result is a rich and complex narrative of the undisciplined behaviour of air and water; one in which dark clouds release a veil of rain far from the shore anticipating a storm, a whisp of cloud hovers in an almost clear sky, above a tranquil sea, or a full moon casts a nicotine hue across the dark water. Whilst we recognise the scene, the dramatic sensuality that emerges from each image’s composition and the powerful body of work seen together is less familiar.

In her famous love letter to the Cairngoms, ‘The Living Mountain’ Nan Shepherd describes moments in her relationship to the landscape when ‘something moves between me and it. Place and mind may interpenetrate until the nature of both are altered’. something has been altered here, and we are richer for it