About SAW

Noticer, rememberer, and documentary photographer, Sarah Anne Wharton was born in D.C. and thrown like the seeds in her garden to grow throughout many corners of the world. Her photographic experience began as a ten-year-old with a 110-film format camera: a sleek, black tube, half the size of a sandwich. It lived in her pocket, and from then on, wherever she roams, SAW keeps at least one camera strapped around her neck and a myriad of whistled tunes between her lips.

Curious and exuberant, unobtrusive and down-to-earth, Sarah currently works, lives, and plays in rural central Pennsylvania. With 16+ years’ experience in storytelling, her work has been exhibited in three solo shows and shown in 10+ magazines, including The Sun Magazine, Town+Gown, Martha Stewart Weddings, JuneBug Weddings, Shareen Bridal, and more.

Sarah tries to be an agent of change, growth, rights, and advocacy for historically underrepresented individuals and communities. She is a firm believer in constant authenticity and learning, and is a lover of people, the planet, peregrination, wide horizons, creative life-mapping, and all things astronomical. 

Come see SAW, and you can meet her puppy baby Vito, husband Jason, and coyote mutt, Boon. You can listen to the constant rain spatter of the PA mountains while she feeds you homemade soup from her favorite orange pot.

Sarah has a Bachelor of Arts in Photojournalism and French from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and studied documentary photography at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine.