About
Sarah Stacke's personal work looks at daily life in communities whose geographic borders were forcefully changed during periods of colonization. Often spending time with a community over the course of months or years, she questions how land, and the loss of it, shapes identities. In 2012 Sarah received a master’s degree from Duke University tailored to analyze photographic representations of sub-Saharan Africa. She's an adjunct faculty member at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies and the International Center of Photography and regularly writes about photography for National Geographic and Photo District News.
Sarah’s personal and assignment work has taken her around the world with an emphasis on South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, and within the U.S.A, North Carolina, New York, and Minnesota. She has worked with The New York Times, The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, STAT by Boston Globe Media, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, UN Women, Open Society Foundations and International Rescue Committee, among others.
Sarah is a member of Women Photograph.
Exhibitions
2018 15 Stories of Hope, Change and Justice, Johns Hopkins University, DC Campus
2017 In Forced Geographies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
2017 The Docking Station presents Short Stories at Unseen Amsterdam
2016 Love From Manenberg, Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows, Photoville
2013 Love From Manenberg, Daylight Project Space
2013 MOPLA Pin-UP Show, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center
2010 Facsimile, Draewell Gallery, Christiansen Gallery, Mercer Gallery, Little Gallery
2009 We are the People in Your Neighborhood, Rice Street Library and public street display
2009 OverExposure 32 x 4, Minneapolis Central Library
Exhibition Curator
2015 Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, Asheville Art Museum
2014 Hugh Mangum on Main Street, Museum of Durham History
2014 AfriPost: Epistolary Journeys of African Pictures, Duke University
2012 Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, Center for Documentary Studies
2008 Burt Glinn Fifty Year of Photographs, William Siegal Gallery (co-curator)
Awards
2017 New York Times Portfolio Review
2016 Docking Station Residency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Advanced Study Program with Jim Estrin & Ed Kashi, Anderson Ranch
2015 Tactics of Collaboration Working Group, Magnum Foundation
2015 Responsible Data Workshop, Magnum Foundation
2014 Nominated for the Visionary Award by the Tim Heatherington Trust
2014 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellowship, Duke University
2014 Digital Communities Lab, Magnum Foundation
2014 Africa Initiative Grant, Duke University
2013 Critical Mass, Shortlisted, Photolucida
2013 Review Santa Fe Participant, CENTER
2011 The Kim Wilson Memorial Scholarship, Duke University
2009 Cultural Star Grant, City of Saint Paul, MN
2008 OverExposure Media Grant, Minneapolis, MN
Authored Publications
2017 Documenting Blodgett Homes, Oxford American
2018 In Nairobi's Largest Slum, These Young Ballerinas Dream Big, National Geographic
2018 East Africa's Queer Community Searches for a Home of Its Own, National Geographic
2018 Inside This Secretive Commune, Anarchy and Utopia Coexist, National Geographic
2018 A Look Inside the Floating Homes of Stateless Vietnamese, National Geographic
2017 Welcome to the Land of a Thousand Stray Dogs, National Geographic
2017 This Eclectic Community Transformed a Desert into a Fantastical Forest, Nat Geo
2017 Life Inside Hong Kong's 'Coffin Cubicles', National Geographic
2017 What It's Like to Be a Young Ukrainian in a War Zone, National Geographic
2017 On Burkini Island Muslims Girls Can Finally Learn to Swim, National Geographic
2017 In Inside Look at the Unique Lives of Circus Performers, National Geographic
2017 An Uncertain Future on the Shores of Africa's Vanishing Lake, National Geographic
2017 Quiet Lives in Villages Overlooking the Sea, National Geographic
2017 Pictures Show the Strange Lives of Captive Polar Bears, National Geographic
2017 The Risky Lives of Women Sent Into Exile—For Menstruating, National Geographic
2017 See the Bizarre Places People Stash Old Lenin Statues, National Geographic
2016 A Look Into the Fragile Lives of Mediterranean Migrants, National Geographic
2016 Opposite Poles Show 'Mirror Images' of Climate Change on Earth, National Geographic
2016 Abandoned Nuclear Testing Sites Reveal the 'Palm Print of Man', National Geographic
2016 Through an Artist's Lens, Field Biology Takes the Stage, National Geographic
2015 Report: On Hugh Mangum, Aperture
2014 Seeing Beauty Where Others Do Not, New York Times
2014 A Look Back at Burt Glinn, New York Times
2013 A Penny Picture Photographer in the American South, New York Times
2015 Picturing Family in Manenberg, Reading the Pictures
2015 Proof of Existence in Manenberg, Reading the Pictures
2015 Making Strong Bones, Reading the Pictures
2014 Mothers of Manenbrg, Reading the Pictures
2014 Love From Manenberg, Reading the Pictures
2018 Visualizing a Matrilineal Village in India, Photo District News
2017 Profiles of Tasneem Alsultan, Katya Rezvaya, and Justin Kaneps, PDN 30
2016 LOOK3: Chris Morris on Shooting War, Fashion and Politics, Photo District News
2016 Instagram Takeovers, and How They Work, Photo District News
2016 Profiles of Emine Gozde Sevim, Fabrice Monteiro, & Lorenzo Meloni, PDN 30
2016 ESPN's Tim Rasmussen on Story Pitches that Land Assignments, Photo District News
2016 The Funding and Distribution of T-Rex, Photo District News
2015 The Do's and Don'ts of Collaborating with NGOs, Photo District News
2015 Hairstyles, Power and Identity in West Africa, Photo District News
2015 Aida Muluneh Interprets Dante's Inferno, Photo District News
2015 Looking for Light in all the Right Places, Photo District News
2015 New Beginnings: 120 Cancer Survivors, Photo District News
2015 I Live in a Mansion on the Other Side of the Moon, Photo District News
2015 For Tropical Girls Who Have Considered Ethnogenesis..., Photo District News
2015 Where Hunting Dogs Rest, Photo District News
2015 Angelina d'Auguste Shows Distinct Beauty of Albinism, Photo District News
2015 The Imagination of José Picayo and You, Photo District News
2015 Sounds from the Turkish Music Scene, Photo District News
2015 Head On Photography Festival is Proudly Inclusive, Photo District News
2015 Enter Black Box, Photo District News
2015 A Love Song to Socotra Island, Yemen, Photo District News
2015 Zine Making for Love, Not Money, Photo District News
2015 Hey Sailor! New In Town?, Photo District News
2015 PRISMA: Celebrating Photography on Human Rights, Photo District News
2015 INSIDERS/OUTSIDERS Presented by Narratively, Photo District News
2015 Tsepo Gumbi: Take a Seat and Listen, Photo District News
2015 The Many Gifts of Instrument Maker Ed Stilley, Photo District News
2015 Constructed Identities: Presented by Crusade for Art, Photo District News
2015 Michael Lange: Forests Dark and Deep, Photo District News
2015 Finding a Voice on Instagram in the Wake of Nepal's Earthquake, Photo District News
2015 How Would the Media Portray You If..., Lewis Hine Fellowship Blog
2011 Arusha's Mystery, Nasher Museum
Press
2017 The Washington Post, Love From Manenberg
2017 Open Society Foundations Instagram Takeover, Water Protectors in North Dakota
2016 New Yorker Photo Instagram Takeover, Twenty-first Century Cherokee
2016 Timeline, D.R.C. Archive Project
2016 Smithsonian Magazine Instagram Takeover, Love From Manenberg
2016 Cape Towner, Love From Manenerg
2016 Sunday Times, Love From Manenberg
2016 Photographic Museum of Humanity, Love From Manenberg
2016 Zeke Magazine Vol.2/No.1, Love From Manenberg
2016 ABC News, Love From Manenberg
2016 Open Society Foundations Instagram Takeover, Love From Manenberg
2015 Everyday Incarceration Instagram Takeover, exalt youth portraits
2015 Narratively, Love From Manenberg
2015 PDN Photo of the Day, Love From Manenberg
2015 Black Mountain News, NC, Hugh Mangum
2015 Mountain XPress, Asheville, NC, Hugh Mangum
2015 Asheville Citizen-Times, Hugh Mangum
2014 CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, Hugh Mangum
2014 TIME LightBox Photojournalism Links, Seeing Beauty Where Others Do Not on Lens
2014 TIME LightBox Photojournalism Links, A Look Back at Burt Glinn on Lens
2014 John Edwin Mason, Love From Manenberg
2014 The New Yorker Photo Booth, D.R.C. Archive Project
2014 WUNC's The State of Things with Frank Stasio, Hugh Mangum
2014 UNC - TV, Hugh Mangum
2014 CBC Radio As it Happens, Hugh Mangum
2014 BBC News Magazine, Hugh Mangum
2014 BBC World Service, Hugh Mangum
2014 BBC Information and Archives, Hugh Mangum
2014 Durham Herald Sun, Hugh Mangum
2014 John Edwin Mason, Hugh Mangum
2014 Durham News and Observer, Hugh Mangum
Teaching
2018 Long-Term Visual Storytelling, CDS Duke (upcoming - September 2018)
2018 Long-Term Visual Storytelling, ICP New York (summer)
2018 Long-Term Visual Storytelling, CDS Duke (spring)
2018 Old Media; New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York (winter)
2018 The Art of Documentary Filmmaking (taught w/Elizabeth Herman)
NuVu Studio, Cambridge, MA
2017 Old Media; New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York (fall)
2017 Mobile Photography, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
2017 Learn to Document Your Culture, Museum of the Cherokee Indian
2017 Pitching Stories and Connecting with the Photography Field, CDS Duke
2017 Visual Storytelling on Instagram, CDS Duke
2017 DocU Arts Retreat, CDS Duke
2017 Old Media, New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York (winter)
2016 Documenting the Personal, CDS Duke
2016 Visual Storytelling on Instagram, CDS Duke
2016 Mobile Photography, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
2016 Old Media, New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York
2016 Documenting the Personal, CDS Duke
2015 The Power of Archives: Using Archival Material in Doc Projects, CDS Duke (fall)
2015 The Power of Archives: Using Archival Material in Doc Projects, CDS Duke (spring)
2015 Photographs & Voices from Everyday Heroes in East New York, Young New Yorkers
2015 Power of Pictures, exalt youth
2014 Tools of Documentary, exalt youth
2014 The Power of Archives: Using Archival Material in Documentary Projects, CDS Duke
2014 Cameras Across Cultures, CDS Duke
2013 Cameras Across Cultures, CDS Duke
2010 Digital Photography, Belvoir Terrace Performing Arts Summer Camp
2009 Digital Photography, Belvoir Terrace Performing Arts Summer Camp
Guest Lecturer
2018 Magnum Foundation/Brown Institute for Media Innovation Counter Histories Lab, NY
2018 East Side Community High School, NY
2017 Old Dominion University, VA
2016 Aperture On Sight, NY
2016 East Side Community High School, NY
2015 University of Virginia, panelist for Photographing the Re-Imagined Self:
Early Black Portraiture in South Africa and the United States
2015 Asheville Art Museum, NC
2015 Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, NY
2015 Young New Yorkers, NY
2014 Museum of Durham History, NC
2014 Co-Moderator of In Conversations With Pictures & Archives, Click! Photo Festival, NC
2014 Duke University, NC
2014 Cape Town School of Photography, ZA
2013 University of Virginia
2013 C.W. Stanford Middle School, NC
2012 Duke University, NC
2011 Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, NC
2009 The Arts Institutes International Minnesota, MN
2008 The Arts Institutes International Minnesota, MN
2007 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN