There is something about Tim Walker that draws me back to him every time I think thought new ideas. He has the most incredible imagination. He may be primarily a fashion photographer but his work focus’s on his ideas and the fashion garments come second to this creativity. The inspration for Lost Boys evolved from Tim having read Lord of the Flies subsequently watched the cinematic adaptation of the story. The film was released in 1963. Set in wartime a group of British young boys find themselves survivors of a plane crash on some island in the South Pacific. Left to their own devices in a remote island they run riot with no boundaries. This book is famous for its insight into the human condition. Walker relates the Lost Boys to modern day children who are are able to enter the vast wilderness of the internet and explore often with no boundaries to protect them. Often dipping into age inappropriate material left for their imagines to also run wild in the wrong directions. As with many of us Tim believes this does not get us to produce creativity. I think the experience of such app’s as Zoom and Houseparty particularly emphasis this over the Pandemic Covid19 crisis. They enable us to communicate but on a different level. No eye contact or clear reading of body language creates an absence of the feeling of true interface and therefore inhibits the free flow of natural creativity. Don’t get me wrong they have provided a necessary forum in these difficult times we currently face.
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