Sally Verrall
What will students gain if they come on one of your courses?
Students will learn how to get the most out of their camera and gain confidence in handling their equipment with knowledge and expertise. They’ll pick up tips and tricks on working with their subject, available light and environment, and finally bring all these elements together for final refinement in the image editing software.
Are there any particular techniques/processes you use in your teaching?Beginning with a few visual examples and inspirations from a long history of photography, I’ll equip the group with solid and practical key skills. Then open up these processes for interpretation and experimentation, I aim to give people enough know how to break all the rules and still end up with photography they love.
What inspires your own work?I am inspired by the stuff of photography; I guess I’m a formalist. I’m drawn to digital media because of its intangible and virtual feeling. I want my work to embrace the old with the new and the new with the old. I feel excited to be a photographer at a time when photography itself sits on a threshold between analogue and digital processes. Simultaneously driving forward and referring back.
Where can students see examples of your work?On my website and on www.povertyticker.com
I trained as a photographer at the Royal College of Art, London. Graduating as Master of Arts in Photography in 2007.
What teaching experience have you had?I am working as Tutor and Technician of Photography at University for the Creative Arts at Farnham. I prepare technical workshops and activities as well as engaging in discourse regarding the contemporary context of photography practice. I am now in my second year teaching in this position and am currently undertaking a PG Cert in Teaching Creative Arts for Higher Education, in order to add a formal teaching qualification to my academic portfolio.