BIOGRAPHY



Tim was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1976. He became interested in photography at an early age and won several awards while still at school, for photos taken while on an exchange program in Japan. During this time he began to experiment with super8mm.

Initially planning to pursue a career in medicine, Tim enrolled as a pre–med at the University of Arizona, majoring in molecular & cellular biology. During this time he worked for two years in a lab and volunteered at local hospitals. But photography was never far away as he spent free time enrolling on photography courses and was awarded a grant to return to Japan, this time based at a language school in Nagoya. At the end of this programme he used his rudimentary Japanese to travel the country alone with his camera, and has never been quite the same since.

Back in Arizona, a growing dispair of the state of the US health care system and the urge to leave the country once again drove him to take a semester abroad, this time at King’s College London. Tim brought to London his super8mm camera and plenty of film, believing he would shoot his last film project before a lifetime of slavery to the medical profession. Instead, this film and the love of a beautiful woman helped him realise his true calling. In 1999, Tim graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Arizona and immediately applied to the London International Film School.



At film school Tim focused his studies on cinematography and documentary. Highlights include shooting his first 35mm film, the black and white voodoo drama Alice Rose From the Dead and directing the 16mm documentary Life Inside, a portrait of two army pensioners coping with life in the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Tim shot the graduation films of several other students and for his own thesis film directed and shot UnLikely Lads, a verité–style documentary comedy.

Shortly afterwards Tim shot his first feature length film with director Martin Stitt — the ambitious low–budget feature Nine Days of Hell (actually shot in nine days). Perhaps the best compliment for the young cinematographer was given by an independent producer at the first screening who assumed the budget was 200 times greater than it actually was.



Tim moved to New York City in 2002, where he has had the opportunity to work with and learn from an entire community of experienced cameramen and technicians, putting in countless hours in the grip and electric departments on productions in and around New York. As cinematographer, Tim has continued to work on a wide range of projects, from dramatic and comedy shorts to documentaries and music videos, one of the more prominent being the dark romantic drama Love & Stuff, currently playing the festival circuit in the U.S.

Tim has continued his collaboration with Martin Stitt, joining Martin on a recent scouting trek in Nepal, in preparation for the Clear Sky feature project. And returned to London in March 2003 to shoot the featurette Alone Together.



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