Sarah Stacke's personal work looks at daily life in communities whose geographic borders were shaped during periods of colonization. Often spending time with a community over the course of months or years, she looks at the intersection of culture and memory and questions how land, and the loss of it, shapes identities. Her work is created in dialogue with the people she photographs.

Sarah’s personal and assignment work have 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, South Dakota and Minnesota. Select clients include National Geographic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, STAT by Boston Globe Media, The Wall Street Journal, Open Society Foundations, International Rescue Committee and Photo District News.

In 2012 Sarah received a master’s degree from Duke University tailored to analyze photographic representations of African and African-American communities. She's an adjunct faculty member at the International Center of Photography and Duke's Center for Documentary Studies and the author of Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum (Red Hook Editions, 2018).

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
2019   New York Times Portfolio Review
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 
2018   Photos Day or Night: How One Photographer Documented the Segregated South, NPR

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

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. Today, Photo District News (in print October)  
2018   Susan Meiselas: On Motivation, Her Legacy and the Future of Photojournalism, PDN
2018   Photographing the High Stakes of Ireland's Abortion Referendum, Photo District News
2018   Once Upon a Time in the City of Mumbai, Photo District News
2018   Alice Proujansky: When a Midwife Gives Birth, Photo District News
2018   An Interracial African Family Album, Photo District News (in print September)
2018   For Jonathan Blaustein There's No Party at Party City, Photo District News
2018   A Buried Colonial-Era African Choir, Revived in Images and Sound, Photo District News
2018   The Service and Sacrifice of WWII's Black Soldiers, Photo District News
2018   I Am Inuit, Photo District News
2018   Meatyard Brings the Fantastical to the Everyday, Photo District News
2018   Amateur Boxing in South Africa, Photo District News
2018   Visualizing a Matrilineal Village in India, Photo District News
2018   Profile of Alina Fedorenko, PDN30
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
2018   Open Society Foundations: Instagram Takeover, Red Lake Food Sovereignty 
2018   Photo District News, The Beat Scene by Burt Glinn (in print August)
2018   Women Photograph: Instagram takeover, Love From Manenberg
2017   The Washington Post, Love From Manenberg
2017   Open Society Foundations: Instagram takeover, Water Protectors in North Dakota
2016   The New Yorker: 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
2019   Old Media; New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York (winter)
2018   Old Media; New Media: Archives and the Documentarian, ICP New York (fall)
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 (fall)
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
2019   Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, NC
2019   Asheville Art Museum, NC
2019   University of Virginia, VA
2019   Appalachian State University, NC 
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
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