Sara Macel is an artist and educator living in Queens, NY. Her photographic work is narratively-based and often deals with themes of the archive, family, memory, place and time. She received her MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and earned her BFA in Photography + Imaging from NYU. Her work has been internationally exhibited and is in various private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Cleveland Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Center, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Sara was named one of PDN's 30 Photographers to Watch in 2015. She is a recipient of the Individual Photographer's Fellowship Grant from the Aaron Siskind Foundation and was recently an artist-in-residence at Light Work in Syracuse, NY. Her first monograph, May the Road Rise to Meet You (Daylight Books), was named one of PDN’s best photo books of the year. A traveling exhibition of that work was shown in solo shows around the country. Her new series What Did the Deep Sea Say received 3rd place at CENTER Santa Fe and was published in National Geographic. Sara is a full-time professor and photography program coordinator at SUNY Rockland Community College.
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