Sarah Hoskins

SARAH HOSKINS

ABOUT SARAH

I am a visual storyteller. Exploring communities, examining relationships between people, place, cultural identity and the land. Often focusing on those communities that you might not know but should.

I majored in photography at Columbia College Chicago, my studies were geared towards documentary and fine art photography. Upon graduation my first and foremost concerns were financial. I began my photography career as a photography assistant in the male dominated world of catalog houses in Chicago. I was the only female out of 26 photographers and 13 assistants. I spent my time hanging weed whackers from fishing line, cleaning products and setting them up for the photographers. Not the career I imagined.

I set out as a freelance assistant as I could learn and earn more. I did this for many years as I was well respected and making good money, it was hard to quit. Eventually I did and began my own editorial career working for national and international publications and became a member of Black Star agency. All the while working on long term documentary projects.

Commissioned and featured work includes, AARP Bulletin, De Volkskrant, (Netherlands) Enjeux Les Echos (France), Huck, NewScientist, Newsweek, National Geographic Traveler, Open Society Institute Annual Report, Rides, Oxford American, Politico, Psychology Today, Preservation, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post Instagram, Focus (Germany), Fortune, L’Oeil del la Photographie, NZZ Folio (Switzerland), Yaddo's Annual Report, BBC Television and Public Television.

Permanent collections include The Library of Congress, The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University, The Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, The City of Chicago and Yaddo. My work was selected for Photography Now, 100 portfolios an international survey of photographers sponsored by Eastman Kodak.

I was a resident at Yaddo in the summer of 2012. In March 2010 NPR’s Picture Show featured my Homeplace project, a month later NPR’s Weekend Edition traveled with me to Kentucky and did a feature on this work. The NPR Picture Show piece received an end of the year award from The White House News Photographers Association. I was one of four photographers selected for the 2010 Robert C. May Photography Endowment Lecture Series at The Art Museum at The University of Kentucky.

I am the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including a Kentucky Foundation for Women’s grant, The National Trust for Historic Preservation's Alice Rosenwald Flexible Fund. Three Special Assistance grants from the Illinois Arts Council. The John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund, The Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, which supports personally meaningful projects that can also benefit others. The Puffin Foundation and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Photography.

I have worked as an educator for over 20 years, bringing photography to underserved populations, including ESL students, homeless shelters and teenagers without art programs. Helping them all share their voices using the photographic medium.

Graduate Program New Arts Journalism School of the Art Institute of Chicago

BA from Columbia College Chicago

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LINKS

Kentucky Humanities Interview

https://soundcloud.com/user-935111786/episode-284-sarah-hoskins-photographer

Feature Projections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N-Lh3EErbI

University of Kentucky Hospital Exhibit and Feature

https://uknow.uky.edu/arts-culture/photographer-brings-new-exhibit-hospital-saved-her-life

The Eye of Photography

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/?s=Sarah+Hoskins