Sarah Wilson is an Austin-based cinematographer and photographer working for magazines such as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, Texas Monthly, Mother Jones, and others.
Wilson’s portrait series about an East Texas town in the aftermath of a hate crime, titled Jasper, Texas: The Road to Redemption, received multiple grants, toured seven cities in Texas, and showed at the White Box Gallery in New York City. With Blind Prom, Wilson volunteered as the prom night photographer at the Texas School for the Blind for ten years. Blind Prom was awarded the PhotoNOLA Review Prize, and showed at New York’s Foley Gallery, the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery and at China’s Lishui Photography Festival. Her work has been acquired by the permanent collections at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, and the Lishui Photography Museum of China. Wilson worked as Director of Photography and Executive Producer on the film, TOWER, awarded Best Historical Documentary Emmy in 2018, and she and her husband, Keith Maitland, have just completed the documentary feature, Dear Mr. Brody.
With her current photographic series, DIG, Wilson explores her grandfather’s life’s work as a paleontologist, which ignites her own search for fossils and existential perspective in the West Texas desert.
