An Interview with Sarah Small
Your name:
Sarah Small
Age(optional):
27 years old
Where are you from?
Washington DC
Where do you live now?
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
What’s your day job?
freelance photographer. so I sit at my computer and edit shoots, build my portfolios, upkeep contact list, and write a never-ending slew of e-mails to magazines’ accounting departments for invoices left unpaid for months. 
Which artists inspire you? (Doesn’t need to be photographers necessarily)
my friend Shara Worden inspires me a lot. She is the singer for a band called “My Brightest Diamond”
I think most of my photographic motivation and inspiration comes from friend’s musical sparks and successes. Maybe because both of my parents are musicians.
Describe that moment when you knew for sure that photography was something you wanted to pursue seriously:
When I french kissed my hot heavy-metal pre-teen boyfriend in a film-loading darkroom after 7th grade at my sleep-away arts camp, Buck’s Rock.
What kind of camera do you use?
Canon 5D
What’s your favorite film?
Living in Oblivion / Edward Scissors / American Beauty / Pee Wee’s Big
What’s your Favorite Museum?
Junk Yards
Friends and Lovers’ closets and under-the-bed shoe-boxes
NY Subway
Who is your hero?
Michael Jackson
Who’s your favorite musical artist/group?
Nirvana and NIN of course. oooo… and Philip Glass and Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, and
What are you reading now?
A Path with Heart, by Jack Kornfield
Favorite color?
To wear: black, gray, beige, brown, and pink
To see in a rock I found at the beach or something: jade and sea-foam green and wine red, purple, and sunny orange.
Name at least three web sites you visit everyday:
www.google.com
www.sarahsmall.com
What are your favorite foods?
steak, oysters, avocado, stinky stinky stinky cheese, not-too-sweet but very moist chocolate cake, fresh tomato, mozzarella, basil, carrot/beat/ginger/apple juice, complex cabernet/shiraz blends- not to sweet, but a little berry-ful and not to tannin-y
Do you have an interesting/obscure hobby? If so, tell us about it.
I sing in an 8-woman Brooklyn-based Bulgarian Choir, Yasna Voices. We perform lots and practice on Sundays and will be traveling to Bulgaria this summer to study in a small village with Kremena Stancheva and work on all sorts of traditional vocal ornamentations.
If you could be any animal, what would you be?
oooo…. some exotic bird that flys real high and sees awesome views all the time or a dolphin maybe to check out the sea all the time. I love underwater, but scuba diving feels so so unnatural to me, but yet I always go back for more. Or, maybe a big black bear with a whole bunch of adorable cubs to protect and a bear husband to hang out with to protect me in the woods at night.
Do you do any artsy stuff besides photography?
I sing with Yasna Voices as mentioned above. I also make my own music at home on Logic.
I take a Polaroid a Day every day for 8 years and plan to continue for life.
Have you exhibited your work in any other shows? If so, which ones?
Yep, lots. I love showing work. :))
Check here:
http://www.sarahsmall.com/index.php?a=3&b=3#4
June 6th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
[...] SlideLuck PotShow is coming up June 17th. The deadline for submissions is June 5, with the theme being “Grace.” Our Spring Hot Shot, Casey Kelbaugh, started the event in Seattle and many other cities. Great way to combine photography with audio (or silence.. depends on what you’re going for) and with people bringing in food, how great is that! I would love the combination of someone’s jambalaya with someone else’s chow mein. Mmm, food and art. Great combo! Another Spring Hot Shot, Sarah Small (HHS interview) also will be showing a slide show in the upcoming event. Lots of the jb family have contributed to the fun gathering! [...]
January 24th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Sarah , how did you like the book path with a heart