Tim Hursley

Tim Hursley is an architectural photographer based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

After an apprenticeship, in his hometown of Detroit, with Hungarian architect and photographer Balthazar Korab, his career has centered around contemporary architecture. Hursley has photographed the works of numerous architects, including Moshe Safdie, Frank Gehry, and Marlon Blackwell; his museum commissions range from the Museum of Modern Art to the Guggenheim to the Israel Museum. For thirty years he has documented the projects of the Rural Studio at Auburn University; many of these photographs are chronicled in a series of books on Rural Studio, published by Princeton Architectural Press. With the same press, he also published Brothels of Nevada: Candid Views of America’s Legal Sex Industry. Other notable projects have focused on Andy Warhol’s last factory in New York, polygamist communities in the West, and funeral homes in the rural South.

Hursley spends his free time primarily in the Arkansas Delta, documenting aging main streets, industrial agrarian structures, aerial agricultural landscapes, and duck blinds in the Mississippi Flyway.

Photograph by J.D. Pittman