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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News / Current Projects

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Current & Recent
The Delirious Sun
Outs & Ins

SELECTED 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

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

VIDEO
The Broken Word (2020)

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Books
Collage
Limited Editions

COMMISSIONS
Editorial

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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 Atlantic, Com missioned photo-illustrations for “Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment,” by Caitlin Flanagan, January 2025 Issue

The New York Times:
Opinion
Commissioned photograph for “A Dismissed Abortion Case Points to Internal Tensions and Dysfunction at the Supreme Court,” by Linda Greenhouse

July 3, 2024 (online), July 4, 2024 (print)

The New York Times:
Sunday Styles
Commissioned photographs for “Desperately Seeking Answers on How to Raise Boys,” by Casey Schwartz

June 6, 2024

The Atlantic
Commissioned photographs for
“Our Last Great Adventure,” by Doris Kearns Goodwin

May 2024 Issue

The New Yorker: The Weekend Essay
Commissioned photograph for
“Facing the Rivals,” by Lucy Sante

November 11, 2023

The New Times Magazine
Commissioned photograph for
“‘Yellowjackets’ Shows Us the Teenage Girlhood We Were Hungry For,” by Lydia Kiesling

April 9, 2023 issue

The New Yorker
Commissioned photograph for Goings On About Town, “Pioneering Women in Australian Cinema”

August 1, 2022 issue

The New Yorker

Commissioned photographs for “The Unthinkable: The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide,” by Andrew Solomon

April 11, 2022 issue

The New York Times Magazine

Commissioned photograph for Letter of Recommendation “Why I Love Erotic Thrillers,” by Abbey Bender

April 3, 2022

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