Sarah Cornwill

Sarah has had a love of photographing natural environments from the age of fifteen. She has always endeavoured to push her creative abilities and to capture the beauty in the world.

Upon completing high school in country Victoria, Sarah undertook studies in Interior Design at Swinburne University. Through this course, Sarah learnt skills in a variety of areas such as colour, materials, and lighting. Once completing her Advanced Diploma, Sarah realised her heart truly lied with photography.

She has since completed her Bachelor of Design (Photo Media). From what was initially a hobby, Sarah has grown her love of photography and hopes to work as a photographer upon graduating. By gaining experience through practical classes, Sarah has discovered her love of photographing families and newborns. Her Capstone project has centred around such subject matter. She believes that to photograph a portrait is to capture a person’s life in that exact moment. Photographing events such as weddings or the addition of a new family member are fragments of time that need to be remembered and cherished.

Sarah has developed a style which can be described as soft, calm, and personal. She endeavours to capture moments in a beautiful way to ensure they will be looked back on for many years to come.

Natural (1)

Angel of Death

Perfectionism

Treasures (1)

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Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.