Sari is a problem solver with the eye of an artist. She loves collaborating with her clients to create photographs that inspire and satisfy. Whether she is shooting on a far away continent or in her hometown of New York City, she uses this creativity to bring something dynamic to every picture. She draws on both her technical skills and her outgoing and warm personality to achieve beautiful and sensitive images. Many of the people she has photographed have remarked on the gift she has to make her subjects feel comfortable in front of the camera, a useful tool that often can make an impossible image become possible.
Inspired as a child to become a photographer by her schoolmate’s father, Harry Benson and his legendary photographs of the Beatles and the Kennedys, Sari’s love of photography has never waned. Since the age of twelve, she has used her camera to explore different communities and to meet fascinating people. She is constantly working on personal projects and has exhibited her work at “sous les etoiles gallery” in New York, among other galleries in New York and Connecticut. One of her fine art images was bought by the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University and she also has work in the collection of the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. She is currently shooting an on-going project called “Silverheads”: portraits of women who let their hair turn color naturally and is forever photographing trees wherever she goes.
Sari is very active in the NYC photo community where she serves on the Board of Directors of APA|NY (Advertising Photographers of America-NY Chapter) as the Secretary and also curates a monthly photography lecture series at the SoHo Apple Store. Once a week, she volunteers as a teacher with a non-profit called NYCSalt that aims to engage and inspire inner city youth through hands-on photography classes.