Photographer Highlight: Sarah Leen

I came across Sarah Leen when I was going though my Pop's collection of National Geographic magazines. I saw the cover to August 2005 and fell in love with the photograph. I have always been a history nerd and the two gas pumps reminded me of gas pumps at the station when I was growing up. (Yes, I know that I am not that old but growing up in the country, we did not have fancy gas pumps but we had the cool ones that everyone wants to restore these days.)

Sarah Leen graduated from Mizzou's School of Journalism in 1979. Leen is a senior photo editor for National Geographic. She was worked for them for over 25 years. She teaches at the Missouri Photo Workshop, which is a photography program through Mizzou. I looked into the program and it is something that I believe would help me and my photography career. It brings some of the best photographers around to help America's youth.

I was able to find NatGeo's profile on fineartamerica.com and found her photo of a farmer disking in the field. It is by far my favorite photograph of hers.

She is someone that I will be watching closely and hopefully will meet her at MPW!

Links: 

• www.sarahleen.com
• http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/photographer-sarah-leen/?source=A-to-Z

Inside NatGeo's Layout Room

"A Farmer On A Tractor Disks The Soil" by Sarah Leen