Timothy Hannem

Timothy Hannem, was born on 14 April 1979 in Agen,{{cite book|first1=Hannem|last1=Timothy|title= Urbex Europe|publisher=Arthaud|date=2019|isbn=978-2-08-141278-1}}{{primary source inline|date=June 2025}} and grew up in Fresnes. He obtained a baccalaureate in applied arts in 1998 at the Adolphe Cherioux high school in Vitry-sur-Seine. In 2000, at the same high school, he obtained a BTS in interior design. Subsequently, he did numerous odd jobs before becoming a temporary worker. He recounts these odd jobs and his adventures as a temporary worker in the two volumes of "Quotidien Survival" ("Everyday Survival"), a self-published comic self-published at 300 copies between 2007 and 2010. From 2012 to 2014, he published online "Un Feutre dans ma Limonade" ("A Pen in my Lemonade") an autobiographical story created with children's felt-tip pen, a tool he has used since opening the blog "A Cup of Tim" in 2008. In 2015,"Quotidien Survival" was officially published by Éditions Lapin.

Since January 2008, he has hosted the comic strip blog "A Cup of Tim".Bertrand Dicale, « À pas feutrés », Casemate, Issue N°23, February 2010. He is also the author of two humorous websites: "Je suis Gothique" ("I'm Gothic"), a site parodying the Gothic movement, and "Vive les Racailles" ("Hail to Rascals"), a site based on the same formula in a "rascal" version. He is also the author of the websites "Tubulamarok" and "Glauque-Land", stories of visits to abandoned places. Urban exploration has been a passion since childhood.{{Cite web| first=Emma| last=Jacobs| title=Parisians in Profile : « Timothy Hannem, Urban Explorer » |url=https://bonjourparis.com/lifestyle/parisians-in-profile-timothy-hannem-urban-explorer//|website=Bonjour Paris|date=August 27, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Ferard |first1=Eméline |title=L'urbex, explorer les lieux abandonnés pour faire perdurer leur mémoire |url=https://www.geo.fr/aventure/lurbex-explorer-les-lieux-abandonnes-pour-faire-perdurer-leur-memoire-197634 |access-date=17 June 2025 |work=Geo Magazine |date=20 September 2019 |language=fr}}{{Cite book| first=Nicolas| last=Offenstadt| title="Urbex, le phénomène de l'exploration urbaine décrypté" |date=2022 |publisher= Albin Michel |page= 101 |isbn=9782226471543 |quote=“Timothy Hannem, in his two Urbex volumes, in France and in Europe, combines photography and drawings that he creates himself to report on his visits."}}

In March 2016, Arthaud published Urbex: 50 Secret and Abandoned Places in France,{{Cite web| first=Vincent| last=Montgaillard| title=" Dans les pas d'un chasseur de ruines "|url=https://www.leparisien.fr/archives/dans-les-pas-d-un-chasseur-de-ruines-28-02-2016-5582963.php|website=Le Parisien|date=February 28, 2016}}an adaptation of his website "Glauque-Land" (photos and texts) with additional illustrations created for the occasion.{{Cite web| first=Juliette| last=Branciard| title="Balade clandestine avec les urbexeurs, ces passionnés de l'exploration urbaine" |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2016/09/14/une-journee-en-urbex_4997667_4497916.html|website=Le Monde|date=September 14, 2016}}{{Cite book| first=Nicolas| last=Offenstadt| title="Urbex, le phénomène de l'exploration urbaine décrypté" |date=2022 |publisher= Albin Michel |page= 56 |isbn=9782226471543 |quote="In France, Timothy Hannem anchors his urbex practice and his publications (books, websites) in a work on the past, of "documentation." Internet users then contact him to enrich his documentation."}}

In September 2016, "Promenade" was published by Éditions Lapin, a wordless comic drawn between 2008 and 2016 on the blog "A Cup of Tim". In 2019, the first two volumes of "Un Feutre dans ma Limonade" were published by Éditions Lapin, as well as the children's book "L'Œil du Cartable". In 2019, "URBEX Europe: 35 Secret and Abandoned Places in France and Europe" was released, continuing its theme of urban exploration.{{Cite web| first=Delphine| last=Peras| title= " Quand faire le mur devient un art " |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/quand-faire-le-mur-devient-un-art_2063077.html|website=L'Express|date=February 24, 2019}}{{Cite web| first=Catherine| last=Calvet| title= " L'urbex saisit un lieu avant qu'il ne disparaisse du paysage et de la mémoire " |url=https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2019/03/07/l-urbex-saisit-un-lieu-avant-qu-il-ne-disparaisse-du-paysage-et-de-la-memoire_1713658/|website=Libération|date=March 7, 2019}}{{Cite web| first=Arthur| last=Frydman| title= " Urbex : l'art d'être un Indiana Jones " |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/art-de-vivre/urbex-l-art-d-etre-un-indiana-jones-09-05-2019-2311652_4.php|website=Le Point|date=May 9, 2019}}

In 2021, Canevas was published by Éditions Lapin, a transmedia comic book whose even-numbered chapters (in colour) are published online, while the odd-numbered chapters (in black and white) can be discovered in the print version, which contains both colour and black and white chapters intermixed.{{Cite web| first=Noctenbule| last=Ribambulle| title= " Canevas " |url= https://22h05ruedesdames.com/2021/05/05/canevas-tim/|website=La Ribambulle|date=May 5, 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Editions |first1=Lapin |title=" Interview : Lorraine Les Bains et Tim parlent de Maisonologue et Canevas ! " |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFLwGMFi6QA |website=Youtube |publisher=Editions Lapin|date=July 8, 2021}}{{primary source inline|date=June 2025}}

In 2023 is published "Glauque-Land, 25 Years of Urbex in France", by Éditions Albin Michel. This book provides an overview of his work as an urban explorer since the late 1990s. With a preface by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, this third book on this theme features the unique feature of featuring the people who inhabited the abandoned places presented in the book through pages from fictional diaries.{{Cite web| first=Laure| last=Gamaury| title=Urbex en Île-de-France : « Les lieux abandonnés, ce sont aussi des lieux avec une histoire » |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/paris/4062686-20231119-urbex-ile-france-lieux-abandonnes-aussi-lieux-histoire|website=20 Minutes|date=November 19, 2023}}

In 2024, he presented the exhibition "Urbex, Racines et Fragments" ("Urbex, Roots and Fragments"){{Cite web| first=Marie Amélie| last=Marchal| title= " Visite des lieux abandonnés du Val-de-Marne avec l'un des précurseurs de l'urbex en France " | url=https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/fresnes_94034/visite-des-lieux-abandonnes-du-val-de-marne-avec-l-un-des-precurseurs-de-l-urbex-en-france_61609000.html| website=Actu Paris| date=September 2024}}. at the Fresnes Ecomuseum : photographs, illustrations, comic strips, and videos of places explored in and around Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, from the late 1990s to the present day.{{cite news |last1=Delporte |first1=Fanny |title=« J'ai eu une trouille bleue » : comment Timothy, le pionnier de l'urbex, a débuté ses explorations à Fresnes |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/val-de-marne-94/jai-eu-une-trouille-bleue-comment-timothy-le-pionnier-de-lurbex-a-debute-ses-explorations-a-fresnes-30-11-2024-L27EL2EL3JFTLGKQK6USHAJ5GE.php |access-date=17 June 2025 |work=Le Parisien |date=30 November 2024 |language=fr-FR}} In 2025, he drawn three illustrations for Maxime Fontaine's book "Chaman Urbex".

• The Masque of the Red Death, animated adaptation of the novel by Edgar Allan Poe, 2005.
• Quotidien Survival : Tome 1 : Les p'tits boulots, self-published, 2006.
• Quotidien Survival : Tome 2 : L'intérim, self-published, 2007.
• Une culture de l'ombre, à la rencontre des Gothiques, Éditions Luciférines, 2013.
• Un Feutre dans ma Limonade, self-published, 2012 à 2014.
• Quotidien Survival , Lapin Éditions, official publication, 2015.
• Anthologie : Maisons Hantées, Éditions Luciférines, 2015.
• URBEX : 50 Lieux Secrets et Abandonnés en France, Éditions Arthaud, 2016.
• Promenade, Lapin Éditions, 2016.
• URBEX Europe : 35 Lieux Secrets et Abandonnés en France et en Europe, Arthaud, 2019.
• L'Oeil du Cartable, Lapin Éditions, 2019.
• Un Feutre dans ma Limonade - Tome I, Lapin Éditions, 2019.
• Un Feutre dans ma Limonade - Tome II, Lapin Éditions, 2020.
• Un Feutre dans ma Limonade - Tome III, Lapin Éditions, 2021.
• Canevas, Lapin Éditions, 2021.
• Glauque-Land, 25 ans d'Urbex en France, Éditions Albin Michel, 2023.
• Chaman Urbex (illustrations), Maxime Fontaine, Editions Scrinéo, 2025.

• Urbex, racines et fragments : le monde de Timothy Hannem, Ecomusée de Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, 2024.

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