Photographers Report
Photographer: Sara Tasker
Personal Background
Sara Tasker is a photographer from Manchester, England. She has a master's degree in the field of communicative sciences and disorders. Tasker had to give up her job as a speech therapist with the NHS (National Health Service) when her Instagram career started. When she was pregnant with her daughter she reactivated her Instagram account which instantly changed her life. She has one daughter, Orla, with her husband, Jacob Tasker, and she now currently lives in rural Yorkshire, England.
Style
Tasker is a passionate iPhone photographer and blogger from England. She does photos of children, animals, self portraits, still lives, and landscapes, and she makes use of beautiful lighting and subdued colors to create a great mood in her images. Her photos also show an air of good-naturedness when you look at them.
Philosophy
For Tasker, her insperation came from Tarot cards. As a teen, she had servere anxiety that makes everything a big deal and looked for something that could help her find a safe place and in control of the freefall that is life. From that point on, though I should point out that she quote "doesn't beleive in divination" anymore, she still found the value of Tarots as a collection of folk wisdom that illustrated the stories that were passed down through multiple cultures and generations. She says that though she doesn't believe in such things she said that ,"Sometimes a connection to the past is more valuable than a prediction of the future."
Influences
Since she was already a free-lanse photographer, her biggest insperation into taking photography and blogging as a full time career was Instagram. When she started using the social media platform she did a lot of work related things with it. But, after she quit her job as a speech therapist at the NHS due to her pregnancy, she picked up her Instagram account and started posting photos she took on her phone.
Sources
https://meandorla.co.uk/about
https://meandorla.co.uk/personal/things-i-learned-from-tarot-cards
https://iphonephotographyschool.com/sara-tasker/#:~:text=Sara%20Tasker%20is%20a%20passionate,wonderful%20mood%20in%20her%20images.
https://meandorla.co.uk/personal/things-i-learned-from-tarot-cards
https://iphonephotographyschool.com/sara-tasker/#:~:text=Sara%20Tasker%20is%20a%20passionate,wonderful%20mood%20in%20her%20images.