About Sara: My superpower is putting people at ease & catching natural, flattering moments in the most gorgeous light I can find (or create). I photograph all sorts of people doing all sorts of interesting things, and I've been doing it professionally since 1991 (while still in high school), shooting headshots and bands. After college I began shooting for record companies & fashion designers as well as weddings and lots of other things.

I have lived in California since 2003 and after family and work has taken me to Pasadena, San Francisco, Sebastopol and San Diego, I have now landed in Idyllwild.

 My clients are individuals, families, magazines, musicians, small businesses, and occasionally big companies. When I am not shooting or processing images for clients, or wrangling my teens or dog, I make art.

About Portraits: Each session includes a mixture of directed portraits & spontaneous documentation of life's unpredictability. Full sessions usually take about 1.5 hours. For headshots and individual portraits, this gives us time to include some outfit changes and to explore some different lighting and location options. For kids and families, this amount of time allows us to weather mood swings as well. I offer mini-sessions twice a year, in April and October. Both mini and full sessions include all the edited digital files.

About Weddings: Though I have enjoyed being part of hundreds of weddings in the last 20 years, I am not shooting them at this time.

Fine Art Work:  My book works are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Library of Congress, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and special collections at many universities including Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and Columbia.  If you're interested to know more, see my Curriculum Vitae, and my art website. While my artwork and my work as a portrait photographer are different, my endeavors cross-pollinate.  

Thanks for visiting. Tell me about the pictures you want by using this form, or my phone or email (below.)

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For my portrait and wedding work, you are in the right place: 

sarapressportraits.com

To see my commercial and editorial photo work, visit www.SaraPress.com

To see my book work, visit www.DeeplyGame.com

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