Sara Messinger (b. 1998) is a photographer based in New York, New York
Contact
saralmessinger@gmail.com
Education/Experience
B.A. in History, Documentary, and Memory at Gallatin School of Individualized Study. New York University (‘22)
2021 Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIV, Attendee
Publication/Client List
The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, NPR, The New Yorker, i-D, Kickstarter, Hodinkee, Republik, Rolling Stone, Pleasures, Major League Soccer, Third Man Records, Palace Skateboards, New York City Tourism, and Dr. Martens
Awards
Palm Photo Prize - 2024, Finalist
Lucie Foundation, Emerging Photographer in Photojournalism/Documentary - 2023, Finalist
Group Exhibitions
Palm Photo Prize 2024 Exhibition at 1014 Gallery - London, September 2024
Current Affairs at Book and Job Gallery - San Francisco, CA - July 2024
Palm Photo Prize 2024 Exhibition at Melkweg Expo - Amsterdam, May 2024
Group Homecoming Exhibition 2022 & 2023 at Rochester Institute of Technology Space Gallery - December 2023
Spew Group Show at Waste Gallery - London, October 2023
Eyes on Art Group Show at Frost Gallery - Brooklyn, August 2023
Selected Press / Interviews / Commissions / Features
Leica Fotografie International, “Shadow of a Teenage Daydream,” print feature, October 2024
The New York Times, “What Teenagers are Learning about the 2024 Elections,'“ online, October 2024
New York Magazine, All Things Go Music Festival, online and print portfolio, September 2024
The New York Times Magazine, The Chicago White Sox Loss Record, online, September 2024
NPR, “Despite women-only cars, Mexico City's metro still has a gender violence crisis,” online feature, June 2024
MM and Words, print feature, May 2024
New York Magazine, “A Hidden Sexual-Assault Scandal at the New York Philharmonic,” online, April 2024
The Cut, “Backstage at the Balletcore Recital,” online, February 2024
New York Magazine, “Tweencore,” 12-page portfolio of images in print, online and print, February 2024
The Creative Review feature in Gem Fletcher’s Exposure column, February 2024
The New York Times, Unboxing NYC Street Photographer Arlene Gottfried’s Archive, online and print, January 2024
Matte Editions, Exciting Photography Now, print feature, December 2023
Summer of Something Special Volume V., print feature, November 2023
The New Yorker, “How Jane McAlevey Transformed the Labor Movement,” online and print, October 2023
The Cut, “Profile: C Pam Zhang on Her Novel ‘Land of Milk and Honey,’” online, September 2023
Republik, activist and writer Silvia Federici, online, August 2023
Dazed, “Intimate portraits of New York’s non-conformist teens, online, August 2023
New York Magazine, Elizabeth Street Garden, online and print, July 2023
Rolling Stone x Pleasures collaboration, online, June 2023
New York Magazine, “How Swifties Commuted to Taylor Swift’s MetLife Stadium Show,” online and print (photography and writing), June 2023.
The Cut, “‘Yellowjackets’ Star Courtney Eaton,” online, May 2023.
Marie Claire Korea, Photo essay on New York City youth and interview, online and print, May 2023.
New York Times, “Emma Choi Navigated NPR Layoffs, and College,” online and print, April 2023.
New York Magazine, “The Fabulist in the Wood: In Northampton with Kelly Link and her community of like-minded writers,” online and print, March 2023.
i-D, “Photographing teen subcultures in New York’s East Village,” online, interview, February 2023.
Leica Fotografie International, “Sara Messinger: Teenagers,” online interview, January 2023.
New York Times, “The Unstoppable, Unsinkable, Uninhibited Margo Price,” online and print, December 2022.
New York Times, “Art Spiegelman on Life With a ‘500-Pound Mouse Chasing Me’,” online and print, December 2022.
New York Times, “F. Murray Abraham Would Make ‘The White Lotus’ All Over Again,” online and print, December 2022.
New York Magazine, Feature in the 18th annual issue Reasons to Love New York, online and print, December 2022.
New York Magazine, LoveShackFancy NYFW 2022 event, online, September 2022.
New York Times, "Ingrid Andress, a Nashville Outsider Who Paved Her Own Path In”, online, August 2022
New York Times, “Patina Miller Chooses High Fashion”, online & print, August 2022
Pomegranate Press, Group Zine 2022 “Nothing Left But Healing, print, summer 2022
New York Times, “Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York”, print & online, May 2022
New York Magazine, Author Emma Straub, online, May 2022
New York Times, “Kid Krono Wrote Music for Kanye West Between Classes”, print & online, May 2022
New York Times, “‘S.N.L.’ Star Colin Jost Takes a Spin on Ferryboat He Bought with Pete Davidson”, print & online, April 2022
New York Magazine, “What Author Min Jin Lee Wears to Work”, online, March 2022
New York Magazine, “The Off-Trend Comedian Taylor Tomlinson’s old school act is a hit on-stage and on TikTok. And she’s only getting bigger”, online & print, March 2022
UP Photographers, “Interview with Sara Messinger”, online interview, February 2022
The Cut, “The Couples Who Got Married on 2/22/22”, online, February 2022
The New York Times, “Debbie Gibson Goes Shopping for Vinyl Records”, online & print, January 2022
The New York Times, “Murray Bartlett of ‘The White Lotus’ Shucks His Oysters, online & print, December 2021
The Cut, “Lee Pace is Trolling You Back”, online, November 2021
Inbtwn Magazine, “New York’s Peter Pan: Sara Messinger street photographer”, online interview, September 2021
The New York Times, “Suddenly It’s Bare Season”, online & print, August 2021
The New York Times Magazine, “The Month New York Woke Up”, online & print, June 2021