Guest Lecture- 07/10/16)

Ross Trevail

Trevail is from the Scottish highlands and says that all work is personal -> as far as he is concerned.

Ross Trevail is a lecturer at NUA and says his mum got him into photography

He was widely influenced by "The Outsiders" and "West Side Story"

Trevail graduated with 1st class honours in Fashion Photography. Although he struggled to find his feet in the first two years of uni and then in his third year things came together for him. Trevail found he preferred working on location. Trevail was always told his work was quiet meaning he had a shallow depth of field.

A body of work he produced called "Lazarus" was his first work where he felt like everything was coming together.

Trevail shot mainly mens wear, and told us that if we wanted to shoot summer wear it had to be shot in the middle of winter, and vice versa for winter wear.

He started to shoot all of his work around the area he lived like his project "that was then this is now"

He told us to be smart with our locations very ofter you can use them over and over again without people realising they are the same locations.

Trevail then moved away from fashion and into "the scene"  as he felt this was a connection to something in his past.
He got paid commission to shoot men wearing jewellery which was shown in the london gallery

After his London gallery exhibit he did another exhibit called "Detonators

Trevail then went back to the Scottish Highlands to shoot Landscapes, Communal spaces, and places he had gone to fish. Mainly focussing on places that connected him to his childhood, Photographing where he grew up.

I like this lecture I found his work interesting and was keen to find out what he had to say. Its not the kind of work I would normally be interested in and look nor is it something that would link to my own work but It definitely was an interesting lecture.