NAME: Sarah Small
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BIRTH DATE: 2.10.79
BIOGRAPHY
I was born in 1979 into a family of musicians and writers. I fell in love with photography when I was 13 and, luckily, I had a photogenic, cooperative, impossibly freckled little sister, Rachel, on whom to endlessly practice my craft.
My constant curiosity, indiscriminate urge to engage everyone, and fascination with entangling myself in human drama guided me through boundless adventures as a teenager wandering the streets and houses of my hometown, Washington, D.C., equipped with a Pentax K1000.
I was formally educated at the Rhode Island School of Design. Since my graduation in 2001, I‘ve engaged in an ongoing pursuit to find and photograph enchanting characters, animals, and color within all my projects- personal, fashion, editorial, and commercial. I have taught darkroom and digital photography to both high school students and adults. And, since 1997, which is now creeping up on 11 years, I have taken a Polaroid of myself everyday. I plan on pursuing this project for life.
My work has appeared in publications such as Life Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. It has been exhibited at Exit Art, The Corcoran Gallery, and The Australian Center for Photography. I have also been the recipient of several awards, among them: Surface Magazine’s Avant Guardian (1 of 8 chosen out of 10 years), Art and Commerce’s Emerging Photographer, and American Photography 24. I was recently selected and will have my portfolio published by American Photo Magazine as one of this year’s top 13 Emerging Photographers.
With my spare time, I arrange Bulgarian music that I sing and perform with Black Sea Hotel, my Brooklyn-based A Cappella quartet.
