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Sabina Louise Pierce
Photography is...
My passion. It's what gets me up in the morning and what I dream of at night.
Documenting, reacting, capturing, and creating what happens in front of me is play...pure play, and I am lucky, no blessed that I can make a living doing what I love.
I picked up my first camera when I was 8, took a photo of my little pony close-up and contorted. Though after getting that photo back from the printer it wasn't like any photo I'd ever seen, so at 8 years old I decided photography wasn't a career for me. I tore it up, put down the camera and never picked one up again.
I wish I had kept that photo.
While at university 10 years later I signed up for basic photography as a filler and to this day I will always remember the photograph from that class that changed my life - two soccer players, a ball, a line, and a referee ready to snap his flag. It captured me, enraptured me and I've never looked back.
Now years later I'm a successful photographer with images taken and published throughout the world.
Currently I am traveling the country shooting for a book that I am co-authoring wit Kit Feldman called Lick Your Plate! Celebrity Chefs that cook for their dogs! It is slated to come out in Fall 2011 published by Bowtie Press. I am quite excited as the concept was my mine and the photos having been coming out amazing!
Some of my newspaper,magazines and corporate clients are- The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Daily News , The Wall st. Journal, PR Week, MMM magazine, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Health Affairs Journal, The Associated Press, SC magazine, U of Penn's Gazette, Campbell's Soup , The University of Pennsylvania's Vet School, PENN MEDICINE, McDonald's, Ronald McDonald House, Verizon Wireless, TD Bank, Astra Zeneca, Wendy's, McDonalds, Enterprise Rent a car, Tastykake, Temple University, Holy Family University, Nustar energy, Blank Rome , Truijillo , Rodriguez &Richardson LLC.
My photos have appeared in Newsweek, Time, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, People, Smithsonian, The New York Times, The Wall st Journal, The NY Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Bloodhorse, Philadelphia Daily News, L.A.Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, Germany's Glick, Australia's Good Weekend Magazine, ESPN and NBC sports plus many more .
Some of my PR & Marketing clients includeThe Tierney Group, Devine & Powers & Vault Communications.
My non profit &pro bono work includes The Committee of Seventy & The Philadelphia SPCA, the Hope Project & the Philadelphia Mural Arts program,
The most memorable assignment so far was when I was choosen as exclusive photographer for injured Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro as he was convalesing at The University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton center. My photograph of Barbaro rising above the recovery pool (Pegasus) was picked by Time magazine as "One of the Best Photographs of 2006". It was seen on every major news outlet including TV the next day. To be in the presence of such a bright and complex animal inspired me to create a book of text and photographs about him called For the Love of Barbaro that will hopefully be published someday when the economy is better. Pegasus, is in the American Museum of Natural History traveling exhibit Horses on a 6 x7 ft panel and also with a handful of my other photos is on exhibit at the Racing Museum in Saratoga, NY and the Kentucky Derby Musuem.
Through Barbaro I was chosen for the "Best of American Society of Media Photographers" for my photos of his struggle to live and how it concided with my own catstrophic injury. You may view my interview and photographs at here >.
I am also featured in New York Times best selling author Ellyn Spragin's book "If I Knew When" which was released last year and is a compilation of letters from famous woman in their 30's to their younger selves.Lastly, I completed a 3 year book project with the Philadelphia Mural Arts program documenting individuals in North Philadelphia that inspired 7 landmark murals. Along with interviews by Maria Moller, the photographs are featured in "My North Philly" which is available at http://muralarts.org/shop/
And lastly in my spare time I've been enjoying teaching photography as adjunct faculty at Temple University. Its great to engage with young minds eager to explore the world visually.
Hope you enjoy my site, Sabina