TIMOTHY SOAR

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception,

interpretation and execution”

BACKGROUND

• Born in 1964

• His father was an enthusiastic amateur photographer

• Originally trained in engineering

• Early experience with a engineering consulting company

convinced him that he wanted a less

office-based life.

• Switched to a photography degree

• Got a job as an assistant to one of

Britain’s best architectural

photographers, Richard Bryant.

INSPIRATION AND INFLUENCES

• Architecture inspires and

impassions Timothy Soar.

According to Soar,

"Architecture represents a

great deal more than a need

for shelter.”

• Inspired by the AHMM’s

Yellow Building

• According to Soar, “it

delivers exquisite simplicity

out of a complex lattice. The

building has a lyrical poetry

in the way it wraps and folds

itself around the occupants –

deft, confident and

generous. It is one of

London’s great spaces."

AHMM’S Yellow Building

PRINCIPLES

• Explores the physical representation of a spatial idea; it

attempts to represent the meaning of place

• His work seeks to address the complexity of three

dimensional space, translating it into ordered

compositions.

• It illustrates the ideals of architecture and purity of form

• Careful descriptions of space explore continuity of

connected volumes; zones of light; and the geometric

ordering of planes, views and patterns.

AHMM Yellow Building Eric Parry, Bond Street AHMM Unity Building

Marks Barfield, Liverpool The Modern Side Extension Mark Bar-fiel Pavilion

STYLE OF WORKING

• Building a rapport with architects, learning about

their desires and ambitions

• Creating a dialogue that supports both the emotion

and financial investment in each project

• Employ tools of perspective control with

mathematical precision, which render the illusion of

deep space

• Think as if the photographs are the predictor of the

next project

• By refining and amplifying the ideas manifest in the

built work

Amin Taha Golden Lane Venturi Scott Brown,

Seattle Museum

Mark Bar-fiel Pavilion

AHMM Yellow Building AHMM Barking Central The Modern Side

Extension

ACHIEVEMENTS

• His published credits include covers and features in titles as diverse as; The Sunday Times, The Architectural Digest, Architectural Review, ID New York, The World of Interiors and Ag.

• His photography has been seen at The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Royal Institute of British Architects, The Royal Academy and has been supported internationally by public, private and corporate collections acquiring prints.

• Many of the most influential designers of our times have commissioned Tim, with his photographic insight celebrated by Lord Foster and Robert Venturi amongst many others.

"My work as a photographer is predicated on a desire to be an

advocate for design that elevates, to help construct an argument

where good design isn’t an occasional, rare and special thing but an everyday, routine and expected event."

- TIMOTHY SOAR

REFERENCES

• http://www.archdaily.com/515170/architectural-

photographers-timothy-soar

• http://timothysoararchive.co.uk/

• http://www.devonportguildhall.org/wp-

content/uploads/2014/03/SOAR_A2board_Master.pdf

• https://twitter.com/TimothySoar

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