Sarah Sertic is a student at the Art Institute of Washington perusing her Bachelors in Photographic Imaging.  She has been a freelance photographer for the past three years. She has traveled extensively all over the United States and has lived in such places as Illinois, Louisiana, California, Wisconsin and her now residence Virginia. At the age of 14 at the behest of her art teacher in middle school she started attending classes over the summer at the Corcoran College of Art and Design.  She has studied various different art forms from pottery, photography, painting and drawing. Though, starting at the age of 16 she was introduced to the world of photography. For the first time in Paris, France she was given an Olympus OM1 35mm SLR and got to roam the streets of Paris. For the first few years of her exploration into the photographic arts she relied heavily on black and white film with some smatterings of color in her work.

Her other work includes paintings and assemblages. She draws inspiration from such artists as Jackson Pollock, Rosemary Feit Covey, Edward Weston and the Dada movement, Cutcher and Aziz and others. She has been in several jurried exhibitions in the local community in a small gallery in Alexandria - the Del Ray Artisans- and is also a member of the Torpedo Factory; where she one day hopes to show her work permanently.

Her emphasis in her photography and art is usually of an industrial nature relying on abandoned places, alternative models and thematically abstract art. She believes in the importance of photography to illuminate problems that need to be addressed in society as a whole. She has now more recently stated to draw her inspiration from places such as wildlife and animal rehabilitation organizations as well as ecological and environmental topics. She is a firm believer that she needs to put her whole body and mind behind any given piece of artwork. She believes that as quoted from Louis Hine, that you need light to illuminate the darkest places, both physically and metaphorically.

Sarah is available for custom paintings, assemblages, portrait, family and model photography.