Guest Lecture- Ross Trevail (30-10-16)

• This was our first guest lecture of the year. Ross Trevail is a lecturer at our universtiy. He from the scottish highlands. 
• Trevail believes that all work is personal.
• His mum got him into photography
• Has a huge influence form films like "west side story" and "The Outsiders" 
• Graduated with a fisrt class honours in Fashion Photography. although he did struggle to find his feet in his first two years at university and was always told his work was quiet because he used a shallow depth of field. His third year was when things came together for him. This was when he produced a body of work titled "Lazarus" 
• He shot mainly mens where and this is what he became mostly known for and he was given male models to shoot. One piece of wisdom he did share with us, was that to shoot summer wear you  needed to do so in the middle of winter and to shoot winter wear you needed to shoot in the middle of summer.
• All of Trevails work was shot around the area he lived, and told us to be clever with our locations as he managed to use the same area for several different shoots.
• In 2010 he got his first ever cover shoot for a magazine called "the skinny" and became director of photography for "jocks and nerds" magazine
• Trevail then moved away from fasion photography and started looking more into "the scene" he felt connected to it because there was something about it that reminded him of his past. 
• Trevail got Paid commission to shoot men wearing jewlery which was then featured in the London gallery 
• After his London exhibit he went back to the scottish highlands to shoot a landscape body of work called " if your name is here we have your tartan" and shot mainly communal spaces. Photographing places he'd gone to fish, places that connected him to his childhood where he also shot around where he grew up.