Tim Flach

Battus Polydamas I - Contemporary British Art, Animal, Tim Flach

Tim Flach is a graduate of St. Martins School of Art where he studied Photography & Painted Structures. Having spent the last twenty years as a highly successful advertising photographer working with clients such as Adidas, Cirque du Soleil, Jaguar and Sony, Flach has more recently been focusing on his own personal work. Flach has five main bodies of works which cover the span of the animal kingdom. Starting in 2008 with Equus, Flach looked at the family of equine animalia from Ass to Zebra. In his second publication, Dog Gods, Flach examined the ever evolving relationship between humans and dog through the diversity of dog breeds. In 2021, Flach released More Than Human, an exploration of the ethical, scientific, and political arguments that structure our relationship to the natural world. In Evolution (2013), Flach expanded his approach to marine life with an anthology of life from aquatic to land. Endangered (2017) contrasted a visual approach with a narrative bent, emphasising the harsh nature of reality faced by species on the verge of extinction. Birds (2019) begins with the Archaeopteryx, a feathered dinosaur connecting us to the origin of modern birds. Flach followed this with an exploration of the evolution of the bird as we know it today, including flightless birds and more particular birds like hummingbirds. Flach is a Senior Research Fellow (Artist in Residence) at the Centre of Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at Linacre College, Oxford. He also serves as President of Association of Photographers.