
Legs, 2019
Meet the Artist
Marco WalkerQ&A
My father and grandfather were both keen photographers, so there were always cameras lying around the house and my mother has always been a big art enthusiast.
I have always been incredibly inspired by Avedon, William Eggleston, Slim Aarons and Martin Parr, whom I believe were and are still some of the greatest pioneers of color photography as art. Outside of photography, I love the Italian Futurist movement, Cubism and Surrealism; Giorgio De Chirico, Eduardo Paolozzi and John Baldessari have also all been great favorites.
If I was to describe my style in two words, it would be Hyper Surrealism. When I shoot people, whether portraits or campaigns and also for my reportage work, I use a freeze-action technique. I do this with a heavy use of flash to overpower daylight.
For me, my interest in exploring and working with collages gave me the opportunity to push the boundaries of my image making. There are less limitations with collage—anything is possible!

Lovemachine, 2018
The theme that is most strongly represented in my work, and which I am most consistently drawn back to, is nature. I grew up spending as much time as I could outdoors: winters skiing in Austria and summers in Lake Tahoe. As a young child, I had a strong affinity to trees, mountains, vast landscapes and generally the importance of nature. I feel now, as an adult, it is my responsibility to champion nature and its ever-growing importance through my work. And then, of course, my kids are always fun and engaging subjects (although less and less willing as they grow older… sadly).
I love that today, in our ever-evolving landscape of new tech, I can both play on new digital equipment for my work while also still enjoying and mixing in traditional camera and dark-room processes.
When I am not feeling inspired, I find the best thing to do is force myself to go out and shoot (however much I am not in the mood) and that always seems to clear it for me.
Last month I collaborated with my London gallery on a virtual exhibition space and had a show of my best-selling landscape works as lightbox editions. This concept has been really well received and has opened me—and I am sure other artists and galleries—up to new formats of exhibiting outside of the traditional white box space. I am currently exploring other virtual exhibition environments to exhibit. The possibilities are endless and the production costs are low so this, for me, is exciting in the new norm.
Lockdown has been a great time to deep dive into research for a couple of projects I wanted to get moving on but hadn’t had the chance, as the first part of the year was nonstop traveling for work. Now I am excited to get back to shooting. We have a road trip planned to visit my parents and my parents-in-law and will be driving from London to the South of France and then across Italy to Austria. I planned the route so I can tie the trip in with lots of places I want to explore for work.

Calexico, 2019

Paradise Cove, 2016

Mecca, 2019

Ithaca, 2016