Tim Walker's Fairyland

World-renowned fashion photographer, Tim Walker, has spent the past five years creating a new body of work exploring queer identity, love and community. The result is an unforgettable celebration of LGBTQ+ trailblazers in Britain and beyond, all photographed in Walker’s inimitable style. Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends explores LGBTQ+ identity, community, and love through the lens of one of the world's foremost photographers. Within, readers join Walker on a deeply personal journey exploring over half a century of activism, through portraits that range from the fantastical and exuberant to the intimate and grounded. Featuring photographs of many extraordinary activists, performers, filmmakers, artists, and writers including Alan Bennett, Bernardine Evaristo, Harry Styles, Ncuti Gatwa, Miriam Margolyes, Isaac Julien, Chappell Roan, and the Pet Shop Boys. Less familiar faces also feature, including the health professionals and medical researchers working at the frontline of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Walker champions the trailblazers who fought for LGBTQ+ equality, and the ongoing work of the generation following in their footsteps. Alongside the photography, a series of compelling essays add emotional depth and insight. Author and journalist Shon Faye contributes a personal essay reflecting on identity, love and relationships within the LGBTQ+ community, offering an intimate perspective on belonging, connection, and self-understanding. Renowned screenwriter Russell T. Davies provides a deeply personal reflection on writing It's a Sin, exploring its cultural impact and the profound ways it resonated with audiences across generations. Completed by additional incisive and illuminating essays from Travis Alabanza, Lisa Power and Joelle Taylor, and conversations between Walker and curator Susanna Brown, Tim Walker's Fairyland is a place where everyone has the freedom to be themselves, a vivid tapestry of his many inspirations and influences.

Susanna Brown is a writer and curator specialising in photography, portraiture and fashion. She is the author of eight books, including Chanel in Vogue (2026), George Hoyningen-Huene: Photography, Fashion, Film (2024), Tim Walker: Wonderful Things (2019) and Horst: Photographer of Style (2014). She is Senior Lecturer in Photography at University of the Arts London and has held curatorial roles at the National Portrait Gallery and V&A. Tim Walker is one of the world’s leading photographers. He shot his first fashion story for Vogue in 1995 and he has photographed for British, Italian and American editions, as well as W Magazine and LOVE Magazine. Joelle Taylor is the author of four collections of poetry and one novel. Her collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors, and is being adapted for the theatre. Her novel The Night Alphabet was published in 2024 and named both a Spectator and Guardian Book of the Year. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year. Her most recent collection Maryville is published by Bloomsbury. Shon Faye is a British author, journalist, and activist known for her work on trans liberation, who was born in Bristol and now lives in London. After training as a lawyer, she left law to pursue a career in writing and advocacy, working with organizations like Amnesty International and Stonewall. Faye is the author of the acclaimed bestseller, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice (2021), and her second book, Love in Exile (2025), which explores the politics of love and relationships. Russell T. Davies received an OBE in the Queen’s 2008 Birthday Honours for services to television drama. His work includes the ground-breaking Queer as Folk, Cucumber, Banana and Tofu, A Very English Scandal and Years and Years. In 2004 he revived Doctor Who and created Torchwood. In 2021 he wrote the acclaimed It’s a Sin for Channel 4/HBO Max, and returned to the BBC to oversee Doctor Who and spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea. His new drama Tip Toe comes to Channel 4 in 2026. Travis Alabanza is an award-winning writer, performer and theatre maker. Their writing has appeared in the BBC, Guardian, Vice, and Gal-Dem. After being the youngest recipient of the artist in residency program at Tate Galleries, Alabanza’s debut show Burgerz toured internationally to sold out shows. In 2020 their theatre show Overflow debuted at the Bush Theatre to widespread acclaim, followed by Sound of the Underground at the Royal Court in 2023. Their memoir, None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary, was published in 2022. Lisa Power celebrates fifty years of lesbian activism in 2026. The first openly queer person to speak at the UN on our rights, she co-founded Stonewall, the Pink Paper and more and spent 14 years on Switchboard across the turbulent 80s and 90s. A trustee of Queer Britain museum, her