If you can remain present you will start to see all sorts of oddities otherwise unobserved. It is here where Tim Baker delights in the absurdity of the mundane, and it is here, in the moment, where we find his most poignant work to date.
In ‘There’s Sunscreen In The Holy Water’ photographer Tim Baker takes us on an observational odyssey where the people are the theatre, set to the nostalgic backdrop of a European summer.
Baker leads us to seemingly unrecognizable places, rejecting nearby iconic landmarks in favor of the more prosaic human spectacles. A curious and romantic eye obscures place and time with perceivably mundane, human moments.
Beneath the apparent ‘of the moment’ veneer lies a persistent existential stirring, ‘perhaps informed by an unfinished anthropology/philosophy degree’ he suggests.
Baker explores the relationship between chaos and composure, seeking out subjects who are often contrasted by the state of their surroundings. An idyllic blue sky nonchalantly frames a paragliding catastrophe, a field of flowers rapidly swallows a ‘hunting’ sign, and there’s sunscreen in the holy water.
What is sacred and sacrosanct is being polluted.
‘There’s Sunscreen In The Holy Water’ is the first publication by Tim Baker.
