X53 is a series of street portraits taken on the South Coast of Dorset in February 2020. For the project I bought a weekly bus ticket and travelled between Bournemouth and West Bay. Those featured in the project are people that I met on the street, and I eventually took their portrait within a few minutes of our encounter. My projects seem to form naturally based on the people that I meet, and I like to see them as small social artefacts of a certain place, at a certain period that may grow in interest over time.
Tim Batten is a 27 year old photographer who grew up in Dorset in the South West of England. He graduated from London College of Communication in 2016 with a BA in Photography. Since then he has been building up a portfolio of his personal work. In 2018 Tim moved to Stockholm, Sweden where he works as a photo assistant within the fashion industry.