About
Sarah Stacke (Euro-American) is a photographer, author, and archival researcher based in Brooklyn and Andes, New York. Through projects created in dialogue with communities, she shares stories about relationships to the land and its histories to excavate under-considered pasts and better understand the present. Her work appears in Harper's magazine, The New York Times, NPR, The Nation, The Washington Post, and National Geographic.
Sarah is the author of Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum (2018), Love from Manenberg (2022), Burt Ginn—Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer (2023), and In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America (2025, co-authored with Iñupiaq photographer Brian Adams).
She holds an MA from Duke University tailored to analyze the history of photographic representations and she is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography, where she teaches courses about the use of archives in documentary work and the ways archives can shape collective memory, identity, and the future.
Books
In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America, co-authored with Brian Adams (Black Dog and Leventhal, 2025)
Burt Glinn—Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer (Kehrer Verlag, 2023)
Love from Manenberg (Kehrer Verlag, 2022)
Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum (Red Hook Editions/Jet Age Books, 2018)
Exhibitions
2020 #ICP Concerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, ICP Museum, NY
2020 Essential Images, Anderson Ranch Gallery, CO
2018 15 Stories of Hope, Change and Justice, Johns Hopkins University, DC Campus
2017 In Forced Geographies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (solo)
2017 Short Stories presented by The Docking Station at Unseen Amsterdam
2016 Love From Manenberg, Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
2015 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows, Photoville
2013 Love From Manenberg, Daylight Project Space (solo)
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 street display (solo)
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
2021 Winner of the Howard Chapnick Grant
2021 National Geographic COVID-19 Emergency Fund
2020 Magnum Foundation Fund: US Dispatches
2020 Shortlisted for the Marilyn Stafford Fotoreportage Award
2019 Winner of the 2019 PDN Photo Annual, Photo Books Category
2019 New York Times Portfolio Review
2017 New York Times Portfolio Review
2017 Women Photograph Workshop
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
Selected Writing
2021 On One Native American Reservation, Vaccine Hesitancy Has Long Historical Roots, The Nation
2020 Tribal Territories Have the Right to Protect Their People Against the Pandemic, The Nation
2018 Remembering Burt Glinn, text for Burt Glinn, Contrasto Books
2018 Burt Glinn 1959, text for The Beat Scene: Photographs by Burt Glinn, Reel Art Press
2017 Documenting Blodgett Homes, Oxford American
2020 How Indigenous leaders are pushing to vaccinate their hard-hit communities, Nat Geo
2018 See the Amazing, Ethereal Creatures Living Under Arctic Ice, National Geographic
2018 7 Regal Photos Show the Elegance of Chickens, National Geographic
2018 Do Turtle's Have Good Table Manners? A Photographer Finds Out, National Geographic
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 Immigrants Find Homes in Colorful Floating Villages, 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 Manenberg, Reading the Pictures
2014 Love From Manenberg, Reading the Pictures
2018 Outsiders Look at the U.S., Photo District News (PDN)
2018 Susan Meiselas: On Motivation, Her Legacy and the Future of Photojournalism, PDN
Press
Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum
2019 33 of the Best Photography Books We've Seen All Year, BuzzFeed
2019 Smithsonian Magazine Instagram takeover
2019 A new book of photographs offers a penetrating look at the segregated South during
Redemption and Jim Crow, Washington Post
2018 Photos Day or Night: How One Photographer Documented the Segregated South, NPR
2019 This Week in Photography: The Archive of Hugh Mangum, aPhotoEditor
2019 Elizabeth Avedon Journal
2019 7 Photo Stories That Will Help You See The World a Little Differently, BuzzFeed
2019 10 Photo Stories That Will Challenge Your View of The World, BuzzFeed
2019 Hugh Mangum: The rover who united America – in pictures, The Guardian
2019 Photographer's Innovative Pictures Capture Lesser-Seen Faces of Jim Crow South, Smithsonian Magazine
2019 Photographer captured faces of the American South during Jim Crow, ABC News
2019 Snapshot: 'Photos Day or Night' by Hugh Mangum, The Financial Times
2019 Photos Day or Night: An Unorthodox Story of the American South, Photo District News
2019 Smiles in black and white: An unusual photo record of the South, MPR News
2019 New book of historic photographs seeks help identifying Radford and Christiansburg subjects, Radford News Journal
2019 Itinerant photographer's newly-published shots capture racial and economic divides in the South in the early 20th century, Daily Mail
Love From Manenberg
2023 'Love from Manenberg' shows life in a community plagued by gang violence, NPR
2023 Harper's Magazine (January print edition)
2022 Musee Magazine
2022 Huck
2022 Bush Radio Cape Town, interview with Debbie Lottering & Sarah Stacke
2018 Women Photograph Instagram takeover
2017 Two sisters pursue different lives in post-apartheid Manenberg, South Africa, The Washington Post
2016 Smithsonian Magazine Instagram takeover
2016 Shooting (with love) in Manenberg, Cape Towner
2016 Capturing Manenberg: Love in a time of Violence, Sunday Times
2016 Faith and Fortitude in a Marginalized South African Township, Photographic Museum of Humanity
2016 Documentary vs. Photojournalism, Zeke Magazine Vol.2/No.1
2016 Love From Manenberg, ABC News
2016 Open Society Foundations Instagram takeover
2015 Love and Loyalty in a Land of Gangs, Narratively
2015 Love, Loss and Family in a Tough South Africa Suburb, Photo District News
2014 Sarah Stacke: Love From Manenberg, John Edwin Mason
Burt Glinn—Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer
2024 Blind Magazine
2023 Leica Fotografie International
2023 Photobooks to Read this Fall, Magnum Photos
Keep All You Wish, Hugh Mangum exhibitions
2015 Fans of photos have lots to see in Asheville, Black Mountain News
2015 The Photography of Hugh Mangum: beyond black and white, Mountain XPress
2015 Asheville Art Museum exhibits photos by Hugh Mangum, Asheville Citizen-Times
2014 The mysterious images of Hugh Mangum, CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley
2014 A Portrait Photographer Defies Social Norms, WUNC The State of Things
2014 Hugh Mangum Exhibit, UNC - TV
2014 Groundbreaking photographer's work is resurrected in new exhibit, CBC Radio As it Happens
2014 The photographer who rejected racism in the American south, BBC News Magazine
2014 Unusual early portraits of African-Americans, BBC World Service
2014 BBC Information and Archives
2014 Mangum's Photos Reveal Durhamites from 100 Years Ago, Durham Herald Sun
2014 Hugh Mangum on Main Street, John Edwin Mason
2014 Revealing Portraits at the History Hub, Durham News and Observer
Other
2020 Mother and Son Create Pandemic Portraits, BuzzFeed
2020 The Bookmark Portraits, Washington Post
2020 'Essential Images' of coronavirus pandemic, The Aspen Times
2019 Forced Geographies, Women's Photo Alliance Instagram takeover
2018 Review of The Beat Scene by Burt Glinn, Photo District News
2018 Red Lake Food Sovereignty, Open Society Foundations Instagram takeover
2017 Water Protectors in North Dakota, Open Society Foundations Instagram takeover
2016 Still Here: The Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, The New Yorker Instagram takeover
2016 Photos: Vivid snapshots of everyday life in the war-torn Congo, Timeline
2015 Portraits of #exalt youth, Everyday Incarceration Instagram takeover
2014 Seeing Beauty Where Others Do Not (New York Times), TIME LightBox Photojournalism Links
2014 A Look Back at Burt Glinn (New York Times), TIME LightBox Photojournalism Links
2014 Sarah Stacke's D.R.C. Archive Project, The New Yorker
Teaching
2024 Old Media, New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York
2023 Old Media, New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York
2022 Old Media, New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York
2021 Old Media, New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York
2020 Old Media, New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York
2019 The Business of Photography, PH Centre, Cape Town
2019 Old Media, New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York
2019 Mobile Photography and Photo for Craft, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
2018 Old Media, New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York
2018 Photojournalism, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (taught with John Smock)
2018 Mobile Photography, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
2018 Long-Term Visual Storytelling, CDS Duke
2018 Old Media, New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York
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
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
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
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 Lectures, Presentations, Panels, and Portfolio Reviews
2024 University of Virginia (South African History with John Edwin Mason), VA
2024 Dikan Center, online presentation about long-term storytelling and archives, Accra, Ghana
2023 Columbia University School of the Arts (Archive Photography with João Pina), NY
2023 Magnum Foundation (Burt Glinn—Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer book launch), NY
2023 Obz Books (Love from Manenberg book launch), Cape Town
2023 Magnum Foundation (Love from Manenberg book launch), NY
2023 Northern Short Course, Washington D.C.
2022 ICP Alumni Talk–New Photobook Releases (moderator), NY
2020 Storytelling for Change with Patagonia: Developing long-term photographic relationships
2020 Virtual Art Walk with Claudine Sohrens, discussion of The Bookmark Portraits
2020 Reviewer at the WPOW Seminar and Portfolio Review, Washington D.C.
2019 CUNY Photojournalism Club, NY
2019 Photo Brigade panelist for Working on Long Term Projects, Adorama, NY
2019 Reviewer at The New York Times Portfolio Review
2019 Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, NC (Hugh Mangum)
2019 Asheville Art Museum, NC (Hugh Mangum)
2019 University of Virginia, VA (Hugh Mangum)
2019 Appalachian State University, NC (Hugh Mangum)
2019 Subtext Books, MN (Hugh Mangum)
2019 East Side Community High School, NY
2018 Moderator of Do No Harm: Documenting as an "Outsider" at PDN Photo PlusExpo, NY
2018 Magnum Foundation/Brown Institute for Media Innovation Counter Histories Lab, NY
2018 East Side Community High School, NY
2017 Old Dominion University, VA (Love from Manenberg)
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 (Hugh Mangum)
2015 Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, NY
2015 Young New Yorkers, NY
2014 Museum of Durham History, NC (Hugh Mangum)
2014 Co-Moderator of In Conversations With Pictures & Archives, Click! Photo Festival, NC
2014 Duke University, NC
2014 Cape Town School of Photography, ZA (Love from Manenberg)
2013 University of Virginia (Love from Manenberg)
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