Tim Blanks has turned his attention to David Sims, tracing the photographer's route from an early-1990s upstart to one of the most prolific figures working in fashion photography.
In the piece, dated 2 November 2026, Blanks frames that trajectory as anything but straightforward, presenting Sims' career as a story that resists a simple telling. The profile sets out to decode what Blanks describes as an enigma around the photographer.
Rather than reducing the arc to a conventional success narrative, Blanks treats the distance between Sims' early emergence and his current standing as the central subject, using it to examine how a photographer becomes a persistent presence in fashion image-making.
Sources: The Business of Fashion.