About Tim Forbes

Hi! I’m Tim Forbes and I’ve been taking pictures since I was 12. I remember borrowing Kodak how-to photography books from the library and thinking those 70′s hairdo’s were pretty darn funny.

But that didn’t scare me away from wanting to take pictures. Even as a kid I noticed patterns of light and colour (Legos!!) … I wanted to be a photographer and the thing I wanted most was a camera. I loved that feeling of waiting for a roll of film to be processed so I could see what pictures I’d gotten.

Oddly, after high school, I went to college to become a family therapist … then quickly got distracted by being editor of the yearbook and flunked a bunch of courses … haha,now I have half of a counselling degree – don’t get me wrong, on a wedding day this can come in really handy! :)

Now I shoot weddings and portraits for a living and I live with my wife (Karen), son (Callum), dog (Wesley) and cat (Kiwi) in Kingston, Ontario but travel all over Canada.

I LOVE what I do. It feels good to know what I was put on earth to do, and actually be doing it.

• Top 5 favorite movies of all time.
Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Babel, Beautiful Girls, The Apartment

• What did you want to be when you grew up?
An architect … I made my mom buy me stacks of graph paper pads. I thought the T-square was the coolest thing ever.

• Describe your ‘death-row’ meal (appetizer, entrée, dessert)?
Spring rolls with sweet chili sauce, red curry peanut chicken with coconut rice, hot apple crisp … iced coffee.

• What do you do in your spare time?
I’m a drummer in a rock band. I love to cook too – biiiig foodie!

• What music would you take to a desert island, if you could only choose one artist?
Tom Waits. Or Brian Eno … tough one … 

• Who’s on your top 3 ‘must see’ list of musicians?
Sigur Ros, Bjork and Tom Waits. 

• Describe your first part-time job.
Stocking shelves at a health food/book store. My favourite part was organizing and filing all the invoices and systematically rotating the stock (NERD!).

• If you could have a pint with any celebrity, who would it be?
Bono … kind of a cliché answer, but I’ve been the biggest U2 fan since I was 14. Jamie Oliver would also be an interesting guy to have a pint with.