Sara Truin

Finding it increasingly difficult to conform to the constraints of commercial photography, I want to break the rules and shoot into the sun. I'm tired of telling lies with the camera, doing the same blue sky shots; prettifying reality, cloning out the crowds and the detrits left behind - creating an artifice . In doing this, I've been turning my back on the degradation of nature that I have seen happening everywhere, allowing the viewer to feel untroubled in an imagined beauty that often, in reality is being lost.

By always changing our point of view in order to leave out the ugly, we are collaberating in the Earth's destruction, by making everything look alright.

I'm finding solace in making pictures that are being truthfully created. I want to be in the mists and where the light is too low and not worry about the accompanying noise. I want to push the processing boundaries to see what happens.

My pictures are clearly a creation and have a story to tell.
I am from England but live in France

BA Art and Environmental Studies
and more importantly the university of life.

1992 Illustrations (Cats) exhibition. St Ives Cornwall UK
1992 Illustrations (Cats) exhibition. Salisbury museum Wiltshire UK
1994 Photograph (Cat) Your Cat magazine Winner
1995 Painting (Enviromap). Exhibited at the Irish Regional Development Centre, Kerry Ireland
1999 Sculpture Cork Dry Gin Winner and exhibition. Art House, Dublin Ireland
2000 Photograph (flowers) Baaker Winner
2007 Photograph (Birds) Daily Telegraph and Currys. Group Winner and exhibition. Proud Gallery, The Strand London
2011 Photograph (Landscape) Eden TV World Tour Finalist and exhibition. Tottenham Court Rd, London.
2011 Photograph (trees) Great Trees Project 3rd and exhibition Cornwall Uk.
2011 Photograph (Landscape) 7 Billion Project 2nd and exhibition. Westminster London Uk.
2011 Photograph (Portrait) My Cornwall Magazine, selected for book.
2013 Photograph (Landscape) Brittany Ferries Winner.
2014 Photographs (Plants) Bocconoc Cornwall Overall Winner and exhibition. Cornwall Uk.
2015 5 Photographs selected (Nature) 12th international photographic fesrival of La Gacilly.
Exhibition and toured around France.


Various art commisions.
Various local exhibitions Ireland and Uk.
Various stock lib...