Sarah Pfohl

Photographer

Sarah Pfohl is a disabled artist and teacher. She makes work about the value, power, and complexity of: a rural New York hill, the disabled body, and classroom teaching. Sarah runs the photo and art education areas in the Department of Art & Design at the University of Indianapolis. Sarah’s work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Her photographs have been included in group exhibitions at SF Camerawork (San Francisco), Filter Space (Chicago), The Reference (Seoul), Polygon Gallery (Vancouver), and theprintspace gallery (London) and juried into exhibitions by Lucy R. Lippard, Andy Adams, Jon Feinstein, Tara Wray, and Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb. Sarah has participated in publications issued by Halfmoon Projects (Chicago), Oranbeg Press (Brooklyn), Quiet Pages Press (NY), Goldenrod Editions (NY), Don’t Smile (FL), Funny Looking Dog Quarterly (Chicago), and Pine Island Press (Portland, OR) and was selected for participation in Broadside, a Covid-19 photo poster fundraiser coordinated by From Here On Out. Sarah was shortlisted for the 2019* Palm Photo Prize and was a FOTOFILMIC18 artist. She curated 'Today’s Agenda: Images on Teaching and Learning', Light Leaked’s most recent online exhibition. Earlier this year Sarah contributed a text and image about the intersection between disability, the social model of disability, and COVID-19 to a collective, peer-reviewed journal article, forthcoming from Postdigital Science and Education.