We have sugar-coated fairy tales: Tim Walker (With Images)

London Nov 16 (IANS) Tim Walker has re-imagined the world of "Alice in Wonderland" with stars like Lupita Nyong o Naomi Campbell and Whoopi Goldberg for a calendar. And the British fashion photographer says culturally people have "sugar-coated fairy tales in the last 50 years".

"I think culturally we ve sugar-coated fairy tales in the last 50 years. Children can really see and feel the darkness in things just as much as the lightness. And that s something that Lewis Carroll completely got and maybe that s why it resonates so much " Walker said in a statement.

Walker has shot The Pirelli 2018 Calendar which was presented at the Manhattan Center in New York. The calendar has 28 shots consisting of 20 different and extraordinary sets for a new unique Wonderland.

Talking about it Walker said: "I always wanted to do it obviously. I mean it s an interesting thing that you look at a picture from a Pirelli Calendar and you know when it was taken; it s very much of the time. And I always like the way you d look at it and you could see that the photographers were given a freedom to voice their visual imagination."

Walker feels there is beauty in many different things.

"Something dying and decomposing is sometimes just as beautiful as something that s just been born. I think there s a misconception to only focus on the lighter side " he added.

This year s calendar features a list of black models and celebrities including Adut Akech Adwoa Aboah Alpha Dia Djimon Hounsou Duckie Thot King Owusu Lil Yachty RuPaul Sasha Lane Sean "Puff Daddy " Combs Slick Woods Thando Hopa Wilson Oryema and Zoe Bedeaux.

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