The man of many faces

This portrait of Andrews was taken by Danielle Tunstall, a former cleaner, who took up photography only two and a half years ago. Photograph: Danielle Tunstall

Andrews was 54 and working as a solicitor when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Photograph: Mark Russell. Detail from At Home In The Dining Room

When even holding a pen became difficult, Andrews accepted that his working life was over. Photograph: Mauro Sanna

When even holding a pen became difficult, Andrews accepted that his working life was over. “I was very lucky in having an insurance policy that would give me a proportion of my salary,” Andrews says, “so when the consultant said I could give up work, I just burst into tears at the enormity of realising I was free." Photograph: David Secombe

The project started when Andrews saw an ad in Time Out magazine in 2007 by a photographer looking to take portraits for a book. 'I thought it would be cool,' he says. Photograph: Spencer Murphy

Now 128 photographers have taken a portrait of the father of two. Photograph: Sara Naim

The idea for this image by Liz Orton came after Andrews described "a slowly diminishing tower of boxes as a metaphor for the way he’d taken back control of his life since he’d got Parkinson’s." Photograph: Liz Orton

“For me, nakedness represents a stripping away of layers of identity, and also a sense of freedom that I don’t have to be what anyone expects," Andrews says. Photograph: Jillian Edelstein

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Photograph: Miss Aniela (Natalie Dybisz)

Andrews began contacting established photographers whose work he admired, such as Rankin and Harry Borden, who took this image. Photograph: Harry Borden

Photograph: Astrid Schulz

"During the shoot," Rankin says of his ­portrait, "Tim was shaking a hell of a lot, but from the ­photograph you would never know he had ­Parkinson's – the photograph has the power to make him still again."


An exhibition of Tim Andrews portraits is at the Lightbox gallery, Woking, until 27 February. See photographer Chris Floyd's video of Tim Andrews. Photograph: Rankin