My name is Sarah Warmker. I fell in love with photography thanks to a disposable camera that was given to me when I was seven years old. After seeing the images I made out of those 24 magic frames, I was hooked. In subsequent years I subjected all of my younger siblings to impromptu photoshoots with a tiny plastic camera until my grandfather gave me my first "real" camera when I was twelve. In the years just before digital photography came to the masses, I learned to process and print 35mm film in the darkroom, the old-fashioned way, and developed a patience for crafting images that I consider a blessing in the digital age.
One of the hardest questions people ask me these days is what "kind" of photography I like best. The truth is, I have a passion for making images of all kinds, regardless of genre. You may find me making traditional portraits one minute, capturing photo-journalistic candids the next, and finding some abstract art in the middle of it all. Whether I'm shooting a wedding, a landscape, my kid cousins, a punk rock concert, my dinner, or my best friends, I get excited when I make an image that is somehow bigger than the frame - something truthful, meaningful, fun, beautiful - an image that honors its subject. If that is a type, that's the kind of photography I like best.
