Sara Hannant is a freelance photographer based in London. She graduated in MA Transnational Arts at Camberwell College of Arts, Documentary Photography at Newport and Art and Design in Social Contexts at Dartington College of Arts.

Since 1988 she has worked on editorial, commercial and cultural assignments.  She has also initiated and run over twenty collaborative photography projects devised to empower marginalised groups in the UK and abroad. She is a visiting lecturer in Visual Journalism at City University in London.

Sara has worked extensively within the voluntary sector including international assignments for UNICEF, VSO and Womankind Worldwide.  Her social documentary work has appeared in The Guardian, Marie Claire and The Sunday Times among others.

Her forthcoming touring exhibition Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids: A Journey through the English Ritual Year will be showing at the Horniman Museum in London from 22 October 2011 – 5 September 2012. An accompanying book of the same title is published by Merrell.

Recent solo exhibitions; Harvest (2006) charts the journey of hospital food from cultivation to consumption and Bread St (2004) examines the ethnic and cultural diversity of London’s artisan bakers, both launched at City Hall in London. Earlier work includes Mixed Emotions (Sheridan Russell Gallery 2002) reflecting the experiences of isolated carers in Westminster and Reaching Out (Oxo Tower 2001) highlighting causes and consequences of homelessness in south London.

In recognition for her photography she received the Resurgence Photography Award 2006, Arts Council England project awards in 2004 and 2005, The Royal Society of Arts Young Artist of the Year Award in 1995 and BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Capture the World in 1994.

“Sara Hannant shows a keen eye for the unexpected, but never allows that to detract from her subjects. Some of the images have a spontaneous immediacy while others introduce more depth and measured aesthetic-unfussy and beautifully shot.” Gervase Gordon, London Art

A full CV is available on request.