Sarah Palmer

photographer/artist based in Brooklyn, NY
educator at Parsons School of Design
commissions for: The New Yorker, The New York Times (Magazine, Opinion, Styles, Arts), The Atlantic

News / Current Works

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Current & Recent
The Delirious Sun
Outs & Ins

SELECTD WORKS
Knotted Spiral
The Wind Is No House
Darklight
Days of the Future
The Startling Reality of Things
Book of the Living
Rose with Nails for Petals
As A Real House

VIDEO
The Broken Word (2020)

ARTIST BOOKS / PUBLICATIONS
In My Mouth, A Song (coming soon)
Book of the Living
Finger-Nails (Your Vaulting Arches) {puzzle}
Slipping Rose
The Sweets of Pillage
Bending the Bow
Sea Garden
Waves

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Books
Collage
Limited Editons

COMMISSIONS
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© Sarah Palmer 2025

Commissions

The New York Times: Opinion, Licensed photograph for “WeightWatchers Got One Thing Very Right,” by Jennifer Weiner

May 15, 2025 (online)
May 28, 2025 (print)



Work details:
Indelible Laughter, 2018
from the series Rose with Nails for Petals
30” H x 24” W
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum, floated in a black maple frame













The New Yorker 

Commissioned photograph for Goings On About Town, “‘The Groundbreaking Films of Gordon Parks”

December 13, 2021 issue
The New York Times

Commissioned photograph for Arts Section, “‘The Contender’ Lit Me on Fire. Now It’s a Cringe Factory.” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner 

September 8, 2021
Little Elegies for Sister Satan, by Michael Palmer, commissioned book cover, New Directions Press, May, 2021
The Fabulist, Commission for Fiction, “Twenty-four Issues of Artforum,” by César Aira, Issue 29, February 2020
The New Yorker, Commission for Fiction, “Sevastopol,” by Emilio Fraia, December 16, 2019
Commission for Fiction, The New Yorker, December 6, 2019

VICE Magazine, Commission for “A Complex Fracture” in the Truth and Lies issue, March 2019