Bio

Sarah Hoskins is a Midwest based documentary photographer, currently her time is split between Chicago and Lexington. Her photographs have been included in over 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.

Hoskins has been published in national and international publications, including Chicago Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Doubletruck, Enjeux Les Echos (France), Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal, NewScientist, Newsweek, National Geographic Traveler, Open Society Institute Annual Report, Rides, Focus (Germany), Fortune, NZZ Folio (Switzerland), BBC Television and Public Television.

In 2009 she received funding for her Homeplace project from The National Trust for Historic Preservation's Alice Rosenwald Flexible Fund for Rosenwald Schools. Her work was recently renewed for the third time at The Museum Of Contemporary Photography's Midwest Photographers project in Chicago. She was awarded two Honorable Mentions from the International Photography Awards in August 2009. Her Homeplace project in the Deeper Perspective category and Painting The Eiffel Tower in the Historic Architecture category.Her work was selected for Photography Now, 100 portfolios an international survey of photographers sponsored by Eastman Kodak. Her documentary photography projects have been featured in American Photography Annual 19, Ameriican Legacy Magazine, Foto8, Photo District News and The Digital Journalist. She is the recipient of several fellowships and grants most recently for her long term project The Homeplace: Photographs from Historic African-American Hamlets in Kentucky, which she is currently working on.

Hoskins is also an educator. She was a guest lecturer in 2007 and 2004 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, she has received two Illinois Arts Council Short-Term Residency grants to teach photography to homeless men, women, and children.