Dr Tim Butcher
My photography and research combine as visual ethnographies to understand lived experiences of life and work. My work is exhibited and published internationally.
I am the author of Creative Work Beyond Precarity: Learning to Work Together (published by Routledge, 2023), and the Founder, CEO and Podcast Host of ConnectCurateCreate.
I am a board member of Second Echo Ensemble, and I previously volunteered as Deputy Editor of fLIP magazine. I also had a 20-year international academic career as a visual ethnographer, sociologist of work & business school professor.
If you are interested in working with me, let’s talk.
Rather than an escape from reality, my slow social documentary approach offers lines of flight that engage directly with felt encounters of contemporary life, articulated through portraiture, urban and landscape image-making. The materialities of my darkroom practice extend and intensify my experiences with subjects to invoke meaning-making. My process is a series of learnings from project-to-project, image-by-image to afford critical insights into everyday affective encounters that are otherwise unacknowledged.
Recent press
An interview for Island magazine in 2025.
Excerpt from the Contemporary Art Tasmania podcast in 2025.
Article about Tales of Precarity at Sawtooth ARI in 2023.