Sarah Leen

Editor . Teacher . Curator . Founder @ The Visual Thinking Collective based in Washington DC

In 2019, Sarah Leen founded The Visual Thinking Collective as a community for independent photo editors, teachers and visual managers to serve photographers, media, art and academic institutions, NGOs, and corporate clients in telling... read on

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Open Call: GETXOPHOTO invites visual artists from all over the world to share their vision about the theme proposed for the fourteenth edition: To..

By Sarah Leen — Check out the GETXOPHOTO contest and Festival from the Basque Country in Spain. I am honored to be one of the judges this year amongst a stellar..

Jan 20, 2020

Events News

NatGeo Storytelling Summit and Photography Seminar

By Sarah Leen — Dates: January 15-16, 2020 Location: Washington DC Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Attending: Elizabeth Cheng Krist , Sarah Leen..

Jan 14, 2020

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The Nat Geo archive frames women’s lives in photos

By Sarah Leen — The images in an archive form an invaluable record of the eras in which they were made. Looking through early files to find photographs for..

Oct 15, 2019

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National Geographic: Best Photos of 2018

By Sarah Leen — BY SUSAN GOLDBERG , EDITOR IN CHIEF CURATED BY SARAH LEEN , DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Best photos of 2018 National Geographic's 100..

Nov 26, 2018

News Workshops

EDIT, SEQUENCE, PRESENT AND PROMOTE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS with James Estrin, the co-editor of the New York Times Lens blog, and Mary Virginia Swanson and..

By Sarah Leen — Sign Up DATE AND TIME Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 9:30 AM –Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 5:00 PM EDT LOCATION CUNY Graduate School of Journalism 219 W. 40th Street..

Mar 28, 2017

Awards News

How National Geographic Selects Its Photographs: An Interview with Sarah Leen

By Sarah Leen — 11/22/2016 05:39 pm ET | Updated Dec 02, 2016 By Ben Arnon Read the interview, here . If you’re like me, you’ve grown..

Mar 28, 2017

Awards

A Photographer Documents the Evolution of Taxidermy

By Sarah Leen — I first became interested in taxidermy when I was a child, after seeing a photograph in an old Life magazine of the last passenger..

Aug 21, 2015

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The Fearless Gaze of Mary Ellen Mark: A Friend Remembered

By Sarah Leen — The Fearless Gaze of Mary Ellen Mark: A Friend Remembered Iconic documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark passed away on Monday, May 25. She was..

May 29, 2015

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