Meet New Board Member Sara Andrews
by Jessica Weitz

When and how did you get interested in photography?
I first attended college at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA. At the end of my junior year I took an intro to photography course, out of mild interest and a need to fill my class schedule, and quickly realized that I had found the thing I loved. At the end of that semester I dropped out, spent a couple of years traveling and living in various place around the country, and in 1998 returned to school, this time to Marlboro College where I studied photography with John Willis.

What did you teach and what were some of the highlights of the experience?
I taught Intermediate Photography at In-Sight during the year following my graduation from Marlboro College. I may have frustrated some of my students by insisting that they pay attention to why and how they chose what to photograph. I think they were hoping, at first, to just have fun messing around in the darkroom and so weren't very excited when I did things like ask them to write about their pictures - too much like school! But eventually we found some common ground. Later the students hung their work at Mocha Joe's, and while they fought me all the way on the idea of having their photographs relate to one another in a common theme, I think they were proud of their work, and so was I.

What is one thing you would like to see added to In-Sight now that you are on the Board?
(Get) more people to know more about In-Sight! I'd like to hear ideas from students and others, different ways we might get all of their unique visions out into the world beyond the darkroom.