SALLY TAGG

BOTANICAL PHOTOGRAPHY

"The artists eye decodes the flower message and sharpens its beauty"

New Zealand based photography Sally Tagg specialises in botanical images and flower portraits.

Her garden photography features prominently in a number of national magazines. These commissioned assignments have taken Sally from roof-top gardens in NYC to the Zem gardens in Japan.

Sally's artwork often steps beyond traditional photographic techniques, exploring new materials to produce large scale 'sculptural' works for outside installations. Her latest work Pukanui Portal featuring at the BrickBay Sculpture Trail, is a revolving 'portal' of Puka leaves which have been translated from the original photograph into glass and stainless steel.

Her early portrait work used classical techniques such as toning and hand colouring of black and white photographs. In 1998 Sally combined her talents with renowned author Witi Ihimaera to produced the book "On Top Down Under". Her latest book, FLORASCOPE, explored the relationship between astrology and flowers.

Sally is currently working on a series of large scale tropical plant portraits for
Kevin Roberts ~Saachi worldwide.

Come with your camera, any camera or join up with someone who has one, come and be inspired. Sally will show you how to photograph still life indoors and outdoors. A slideshow and practical demonstration will give you the tools to record the ever changing seasons of your garden.

This workshop will demonstrate a typical set up for a still-life magazine shoot; this could be a simple flower in a vase , or a more complicated arrangement. Participants need to bring a favourite vase or container with some sort of botanical specimen. Also a 'backdrop' (fabric, paper or table linen) to go with their setting.

(Remember this is not a workshop on how to operation your camera).

Workshop Limited to 22