Sara Bennett

USA

Edition 2023 - Emerging Laureate

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After 18 years as a public defender, SARA BENNETT turned her attention to photographing women with life sentences, both inside and outside prison. Her work has been widely exhibited in solo shows, including at the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR, and in group shows, including The Blanton Museum of Art’s Day Jobs, The Museum of the City of New York’s New York Now: Home, and MoMA PS1’s Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, The New Yorker Photo Booth, and Variety & Rolling Stone’s “American (In)Justice.” –Sara Bennett