Sarah Wilson is an Austin-raised photographer, cinematographer, film producer and member of Go-Valley, the film production company she co-founded with her husband, director Keith Maitland. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she balances documentary films and editorial photography assignments with personal and public art projects. Wilson has been on assignment for The New York Times Magazine, Time, People, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, National Geographic Brand Stories and several other publications including Texas Monthly, where she is featured on the masthead. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Harry Ransom Center and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and she has received awards at photo festivals in the US and abroad. In 2016 Wilson worked as a cinematographer and executive producer on the shortlisted, animated documentary, TOWER, winner of the Emmy for Best Historical Documentary, as well as a Critics’ Choice Award for Most Innovative Documentary. In 2022, Go-Valley released DEAR MR. BRODY, which Sarah Wilson both lensed and served as a producer.

Wilson’s portrait series about an East Texas town in the aftermath of a hate crime, titled Jasper, Texas: The Healing of a Community in Crisis, received multiple grants, toured seven cities in Texas, and showed at the White Box Gallery in New York City. With BLIND PROM, Wilson volunteered as the prom night photographer at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired for ten years. BLIND PROM was awarded the PhotoNOLA Review Prize, and showed at New York’s Foley Gallery, the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery and at China’s Lishui Photography Festival.

In her recent photographic series and book, DIG: Notes on Field and Family, Sarah takes a meditative journey through family connections, geographic memory, and Deep Time as she explores her grandfather’s life’s work as a paleontologist, inspiring her own search for fossils and existential perspective in the West Texas desert.