Sara Bennett

SARA BENNETT is a former public defender who photographs women with life sentences, both inside and outside prison, as a way to draw attention to the problems of mass incarceration. Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries, including the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas; MoMA PS1; the Museum of the City of New York; Photoville in Brooklyn, New York; the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon; Fisheye Gallery in Paris; Open Wall Arles; and Rotterdam Photo Festival; and is in the collection of, among others, the John Hays Library at Brown University and the Museum of the City of New York. 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. She is the 2023 Emerging Laureate of the International Women in Photo Association. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.