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Lean Timms

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•Places, spaces & sometimes faces
•Also teaching photography
•FCSH book out this November
•Base camps: Scandinavia & Australia

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Our advance copy of our book has arrived! Fresh from our publisher in NYC. It is so beautiful in real life. The colours, the textures and the quality of the imagery feel so special. We are thrilled to hold it in our hands, and we can’t wait for this book to be in your hands too! It’ll be hitting bookshelves and bookstores all around the world come October/November. In the meantime, if you’d like to jump in early, the link to preorder is in our bios.
We are so proud of the houses and their stories featured in our book: unique buildings all around the world that have been converted into the most inspiring homes. Their stories adoringly styled and photographed by us, and with words by @_michellecrawford.
We hope this book will feel just as timeless as the homes within its pages, and bring you joy to look through and read for years to come.

Love Lean & Lynda XX

@artisan_books by @leantimms

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2 days ago

Always meet your heroes. One of the most magical detours I took during my trip back to Australia in August was to visit and finally meet in person the most beautiful of humans, @belindajefferyfood. It’s been a long time coming. Since I was about 10 years old I used to watch Belinda every night on TV during her cooking segment on Better Homes and Gardens. I’d be ready and waiting, tuned in at 7:30pm, right after Home and Away. We’ve been ‘pen pals’ for years now, me eagerly awaiting Belinda’s beloved Sunday Instagram posts, and consistently finding the best DM’s gift there is - the most thoughtful, engaging and warm messages written by Belinda, updating me on her lovely life of cooking, gardening, travels, ocean swims and the Northern Rivers life she’s created with her dear husband Clive. Of course she also asks me the most thoughtful questions about my life too - as I know she also does with many of you! Her thoughtful and generous way of engaging is why I always end up chatting about Belinda in my photography workshops, as she is the most excellent example of someone who creates a radian magnetic force around her by the way she cultivates genuine connection.
As soon as I stepped out of the car in Belinda and Clive’s driveway I couldn’t contain the happy tears. What followed was the most wholesome visit - wine and snacks on the couch surrounded by beautiful artworks and engulfed in big full heart flowy chats, dinner at home which Belinda cooked and it was a total dream come true!, the cosiest sleep, a sunrise beach walk on Belinda’s favourite local beach where we met all the local dogs and Belinda had a swim, and back home to tea and breakfast including the neighbours avocados, the best winter fruit salad I think I’ve ever had and Belinda’s Seville orange marmalade, all lovingly prepared by Clive. The entire visit was such a highlight for me, one that I’ll never ever forget and will forever cherish. Belinda, Clive, I adore you both. I’m so honoured and grateful to have stepped into your physical world, to spend this time with you and to call you both friends. Here are some photos from Belinda and my sunrise walk on the beach. I was behind the camera, floating. taken in Northern Rivers NSW by @leantimms

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8 days ago

Photos from this past May in the villages and mountains of Abruzzo, with @daniela.maiorano and @bessyyoga, as they shared their part of the world through one of their delicious, generous and heart fueled food tours. Every bit of it was local insider goodness, amplified. For this months issue of @qftravelinsider, with words by @verymarygray. Plus a video of the mag on my way back to Sweden from the Sydney international Qantas lounge. taken in Abruzzo, Italia by @leantimms

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9 days ago

Back to the tropical island of soirées, sailing, superyachts and winter sun. Here are some of my camera roll highlights from @hamiltonisland during this year’s otherworldly and colourful Race Week.
Thank you so much for having me back and for all the fun, @deanmarchini @courtsbaz @caroline.gair.9 @hamiltonislandraceweek

On Ngaro Country. taken in Hamilton Island by @leantimms

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22 days ago

Two weeks ago, a group of excitable photographers were transported to an Italian summer holiday - but really we were in the hills of Byron Bay attending two full and magical days of photography school. It was the most wonderful workshop. I still feel like I’m digesting the delight of it all. All five senses worth.

We set up our workshop camp at @loscoglio_byronbay, a villa so stunning we all had trouble putting our cameras down. Thank you @angelicaarnott for allowing my dream of hosting a workshop in your holiday home to come true.

The dream continued on the afternoon of the first day, when we were all transfixed and transported from a very special guest speaker session by @helloemilie. Was that even real?! Emilie! We were the luckiest to have you join us, to see behind the lens of your creative process, and be in your sweet company. Thank you for your generous knowledge sharing, and your kindness.

In between photography courses there were of course food courses. Super chef @attiliomaiorano really solidified the Italian holiday vibes by combining local Byron produce with the passion and love for food you see straight from the hills of Abruzzo (where I met Attilio’s amazing sister @daniela.maiorano, the other half of their joint buisness @conviviobyronbay). Thank you Attilio and team Cody and Preston, for spoiling us rotten, serving us coffee from our very own butlers pantry cafe window, posing for photos mid cooking, etc etc. Ps - the tiramisu recipe is still holding airtime in our post workshop group chat.

And the most important part, the workshop participants. You guys! I watched in awe as our beautifully diverse group quickly grew in confidence and skill by all of you sharing your questions, insight, creativity, vulnerability and viewfinders. You all individually and collectively blew me away. Those keen to see, I’ve reposted their posts (including their beautiful words!) from the workshop on my repost page. Keep in mind that some of these humans came to the workshop as pure beginners. What the heckeyyyy?!

So full of thanks from this workshop.
Let’s do it again soon please.

Love Lean. X

Photo 3 by my AMAZING assistant @_jane_mccormack taken in Bunjalung Country by @leantimms

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a month ago

Two ferries to Ålesund. taken in Sulafjorden by @leantimms

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2 months ago

Postcards from the fjords of Norway, for you.

And a little back story, from me.

I knew exactly where I wanted to be for the last day of my 3rd decade and the start of my 4th. North, with Ned. So we jumped in my little electric car in Sweden and drove - the most beautifully breathtaking drive, along rivers, through tunnels, over mountain passes - to a secluded fjord hamlet in Norway. As soon as we arrived I was instantly transported to the golden age of travel, a time I dream about often, rich in stories of past adventures, royals, writers and lovers. We were met with long slow uninterrupted days filled with favourites, both cosy and adventurous in equal measure. We hiked valleys, swam in alpine streams and found and ate wild blueberries. In the evening, after dinner in the orangerie, there was tea by the fire place while listening to the piano, a moment with Karen Blixen’s 1920’s Burberry riding boots, and staring out the window at waterfalls, swooping gulls and the almost midnight sun. I’ll never, ever forget this. The happiest birthday yet. taken in Sunnmøre Alps by @leantimms

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2 months ago

It’s here! It’s finally time to share with you the book project that we have been dreaming and scheming and styling and shooting for the past three years - FACTORY CONVENT SCHOOLHOUSE HOME, published by @artisan_books and with words by @_michellecrawford is coming out this October! Our book is a celebration of homes that weren’t always homes to begin with. Where curious and creative humans have transformed utilitarian and unusual buildings as beautiful and soulful places to live. We travelled all over the world to pull together interiors and stories that inspired us most. Within its pages you’ll find a mattress FACTORY in Melbourne, Australia (Lynda’s never seen before newly renovated home!); a medieval CONVENT in Tuscany, Italy, reshaped by a truly visionary mother and daughter team; the vibrant rescuing and redesigning of an abandoned SCHOOLHOUSE in Merida, Mexico; plus 19 more gorgeous spaces from across Europe, Australia, Japan and the USA that people now lovingly call HOME.

We can’t wait for this book to be out in the world and hope that you can get your hands on a copy to pour over the pages and soak up all its delicious images, stories and inspiration.

Preorders for our book are now open! The link is in our bios.

Welcome in!

Love Lynda and Lean. XX by @leantimms

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3 months ago

10 years ago, just a few days shy of my 30th birthday, I flew to the north of Sweden to dine and stay @faviken, @magnusfaviken’s then well prized restaurant (it’s closed now). It was the most generous gift from my late and very dear friend @bethkirby. A gift that totally blew my mind and guided me into the best decade yet. I’ll never ever forget my first ever food and wine pairing - especially the chardonnay with ‘Atlantic crab in a very good cream’, the choreography of the waiters delivering the dishes to each table, and running up the hill outside the tipi after dinner, very full and happy, Jämtland glowing all around me in the midnight sun. The photos are somewhere, I really should dig them up again.

A couple of weeks ago, just a few days shy of my 40th birthday, I booked in for Ned the dog and I to dine and stay at @pensionatfuruhem, Magnus’ new restaurant and hotel in the south of Sweden. It was ridiculously beautiful and delicious. The staff were so welcoming and added so many thoughtful touches. It was a total immersion into all the best Swedish things - produce, design, hospitality and purpose that is greatly inspired. Again, I was totally blown away. The langoustines, that bright pink raspberry sauce, the cupboard full of bath robes and shelves of clogs to take to the beach, the little ‘F’ embroidered on all the linens, our room with an extended sun room whose windows could all be opened to let in the summer Skåne air, everyone’s love for Ned, and just like Fäviken, the breakfast the next morning was next level exciting. I also got some buns from the bakery before I left to take as road trip treats to continue my birthday adventure up north. It was the best way I could ever imagine bookending this most magical decade of mine. Here’s to the next best.

Lean (and Ned) X

Ps - not one bit sponsored. Just love. taken in Båstad by @leantimms

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3 months ago

Take me to the most remote corners of this planet to make photos of incredible experiences in nature and I’ll be the happiest photographer there is.

Thank you @onboardexpeditions for inviting me back to Port Davey in Southwest National Park this past February, for your lush and generous hospitality, and for the way you share and honour the history, delicate landscape and magic of this beautiful far away place. taken in Lutruwita / Tasmania by @leantimms

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3 months ago

Roma!
A short, beautiful, bookend trip in late May, and the first time ever with my camera.

Smells like: ancient dust and evening jasmine
Sounds like: scooters and the secrets of side streets
Tastes like: gelato shared with strangers and a Retrobottega rooftop
Feels like: golden light and something half-remembered taken in Rome, Italy by @leantimms

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4 months ago