Tim Georgeson – Bio

Tim Georgeson works across contemporary fine art photography and freelance photojournalism, with a focus on culture and social, political and environmental issues. His images are non-literal in their dark approach, which creates a profoundly emotional and intensely personal, graphic perspective.

Georgeson's body of work Cirque 2007, previewed at Stills Gallery, consists of arresting yet lyrical images of circus performers. Capturing the clowns in dramatically contrasting red and black these entertaining characters take on a threatening other worldly quality.

BLOOD; or A Long Weekend with my Wife's Family, exhibited at Stills Gallery in 2007, is a combination of two perspectives on the same subject - an eccentric family - one from the inside looking out (Caia Hagel, writer), and one from the outside looking in (Tim Georgeson, photographer). Together Georgeson and Hagel bring to light the sometimes tragic and often humorous characters and events, the nature of blood relationships and dynamics, and the psychological and otherwise un-measurable aspects of personality that are inherited through blood.

The collaborative series acutely reflects on the inner workings of a family and how they experience as individuals this reunion when a wedding brings them together. There is a lyricism and visual freedom in this portrait when scars, leftovers and unmade beds, are captured alongside moments of abandon and moments of ceremony. Georgeson's images are accompanied by Hagel's words - part travel log, part reportage, part journal, part philosophical musing. Hagel includes interviews with her family members as well as her own memories, dream fragments and observations. The vignettes are portraits in and of themselves as well as elucidations on the photographs.

Tim Georgeson's work has been published extensively around the world in French Geo, Hotshoe, National Geographic, Colors, Newsweek, Mare, Paris Match, Rolling Stone, New Yorker and The New York Times magazine. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Sydney, Paris, New York and Amsterdam, as well as at Visa pour L'Image (International festival for photojournalism), World Press Photo exhibition, and The Naarden Photo Festival in the Netherlands. He has won two World Press awards.

These images are a selection from the artist's portfolio. More images are available for viewing in the gallery's Print Room.