Sarah Wilson is an Austin-based cinematographer and photographer working for magazines such as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, Texas Monthly, Mother Jones, and others. She is also the co-founder of Go-Valley, an Austin-based production company.A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she balances documentary films and editorial photography assignments with personal and public art projects. Wilson's portrait series about an East Texas town in the aftermath of a hate crime, titled Jasper, Texas: The Healing of a Community in Crisis, received multiple grants, toured seven cities in Texas, and showed at the White Box Gallery in New York City. With Blind Prom, Wilson volunteered as the prom night photographer at the Texas School for the Blind for ten years. Blind Prom was awarded the PhotoNOLA Review Prize, and showed at New York's Foley Gallery, the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery and at China's Lishui Photography Festival. Her work has been acquired by the permanent collections at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, and the Lishui Photography Museum of China. Alongside her husband, director Keith Maitland, Wilson worked as Director of Photography and Executive Producer on the film, TOWER, awarded Best Historical Documentary Emmy in 2018.
With her current photographic series, DIG, Wilson explores her grandfather's life's work as a paleontologist, which ignites her own search for fossils and existential perspective in the West Texas desert.