Sarah Hoskins is a documentary photographer. In 2007 she received a grant from The John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund. Her work was recently exhibited at The Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received the only honorable mention in The 2006 Gordon Parks Finalist Exhibition. Sarah was requested by Russian Esquire Magazine to review photographs from the online site Flickr for their publication. In March of 2006 she received a Special Assistance Grant from the Illinois Arts council and had a solo exhibition of her Hamlet project at The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine.

Her work was selected for Photography Now, 100 portfolios an international survey of photographers sponsored by Eastman Kodak. In the fall of 2005 The Golden Light Awards awarded her first prize in the Architecture/interior print competition. American Legacy’s Summer 2005 issue featured a feature story on Sarah and her project on The African - American Hamlets in Kentucky‘s Inner Bluegrass Region. WURD radio in Philadelphia featured an interview with her in June 2005 regarding her Hamlet work. Her project on The Backstretch of horse racing was featured on The Digital Journalist in May 2005.

Her photographs were featured on a PBS documentary on Warrenton, North Carolina in the spring of 2005. In November 2004 she received a grant from The Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, which supports individuals at critical points in their lives for personally meaningful projects that can also benefit others. A solo exhibition of her work was exhibited in February 2005 at The Weitman Gallery, Washington University in Saint Louis. Her work was part of the 9th and 10th Annual Istanbul Slide-Show Days; Istanbul, Turkey.

Her work is currently part of the Midwest Photographers Project at The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. In 2004 she received a grant from The Puffin Foundation and a Special Assistance Grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Her work was featured, along with an article about her in the December 2003 issue of Photo District News and was selected for the American Photography 19th Annual.

Her work currently appears on foto8, an international online magazine of photojournalism. In 2003 she was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Photography and in 2003 and 2002 she received an Honorable Mention from the Houston Center of Photography fellowship program. The Northwest Area Arts Council gave her a scholarship in 2001 to help her complete a documentary project at Staben House, a transitional housing facility for homeless women and children in Waukegan, Illinois. In 2000 she was one of three finalists for the Morrie Camhi Prize for under-recognized documentary photographers.

Her work has been published in national and international publications, including the Open Society Institutes U.S. Programs Annual Report, AARP Bulletin, American Legacy, The Chicago Tribune, Focus (Germany), Fortune, National Geographic Traveler, Newsweek, NZZ Folio (Switzerland), and BBC Television and Public television. Ms. Hoskins' photographs have been included in nearly 100 exhibitions and are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, CITY 2000 (Chicago), the Lubbock Fine Arts Center, and the City of Chicago. She received her BA from Columbia College Chicago.

Ms. Hoskins is also an educator. She was a guest lecturer in 2007 and 2003 at the prestigious Women In Photography Workshops at Empire State College in New York City. She has introduced documentary photography to teens and adults who have never had the opportunity to express themselves with a camera before. She is on the Illinois Arts Council Arts-In-Education Roster to teach documentary photography in the state of Illinois and in 1999 she received two Illinois Arts Council Short-Term Residency grants to teach photography to homeless men, women, and children.

Some of the classes and educational programs she has been involved with include: a 2002 documentary workshop for the University of Illinois that was given in conjunction with its literacy publication, real conditions; “The Photographic Essay,” a 2002 workshop for adult literacy students at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois; a documentary photography program—part of a teen pregnancy prevention program—in 2001 at the Evanston Arts Center in Evanston, Illinois; Postcards from the Neighborhood, a documentary photography program Ms. Hoskins designed and taught from February to June 2000 for Gratz Cluster, a youth-driven service learning center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and a documentary photography program which she designed, implemented and taught from 1995 to 1998 for the Marwen Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to providing free art education to Chicago’s under-served youth.