Sara Escobar

Photographer @ www.tortugasalviento.com / Based in Mexico City

My name is Sara Escobar, I am a Mexican documentary photographer and filmmaker. My work focuses on identity, social justice, human rights, and efforts against violence in Latin America. For me, images are an opportunity to discover... read on
Focus: Photographer, Photojournalist, Filmmaker, Videographer, Health, Documentary, Multimedia, Video, Photography, Art, Culture, Director of Photography, Freelance, Life, Impact, Teacher, Cinematography, CoFounder, Human Rights, Creative Professional, Artist, Short Films, Feature Films, Storyteller, Visual Artist, Climate, Film Producer, Arts Journalism, Community, Audio Visuals, Still Photographer, Visual Producer, Visual Journalist, Visual Storyteller
Skills: Adobe Premier, Multimedia Production, Photojournalism, Video Editing, Film Processing, Film Photography, Cinematographer, Drone Pilot, Visual Producer, Photoshop, Editorial
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Available in: Mexico City
Focused on: Photographer, Photojournalist, Filmmaker, Videographer, Health, Documentary, Multimedia, Video, Photography, Art, Culture, Director of Photography, Freelance, Life, Impact, Teacher, Cinematography, CoFounder, Human Rights, Creative Professional, Artist, Short Films, Feature Films, Storyteller, Visual Artist, Climate, Film Producer, Arts Journalism, Community, Audio Visuals, Still Photographer, Visual Producer, Visual Journalist, Visual Storyteller
Skilled at: Adobe Premier, Multimedia Production, Photojournalism, Video Editing, Film Processing, Film Photography, Cinematographer, Drone Pilot, Visual Producer, Photoshop, Editorial
Coverage Regions: Latin America
Languages Spoken: Spanish, English, French understanding
Years of experience: More than 10
HEFAT certification? no

My name is Sara Escobar, I am a Mexican documentary photographer and filmmaker. My work focuses on identity, social justice, human rights, and efforts against violence in Latin America. For me, images are an opportunity to discover other realities and a mirror to understand myself. I strongly believe in collective work and that we should honor the trust we have received by returning projects to the place and communities where they were born.

I’m a VII Academy 2022 Fellow and member of FotoFeminas, Women Photograph and The Journal collective.


 I have a Communication Sciences Degree and a Documentary Cinema Master Degree (UNAM). I was part of the International Photojournalism Workshop at the International Journalism Institute Jose Marti at La Habana Cuba in 2007. I was also part of the Contemporary Photography at the Center for the Image in 2013.


 I founded next to Pablo Ramos Tortugas al Viento , an independent filmmakers and photographers crew, where we have produced and photographed short films, news and storytelling videos published in international media such as AJ+, National Geographic, Business Insider, Hearst Media, MSNBC, Xinhua and RNW. We have also worked for NGOs such as the Truth Commission for Guerrero State, Greenpeace, GIZ, ONU and AMEXCID. From 2005 to 1012, I worked as a camerawoman for Milenio TV, FremantleMedia, Canal 6 de Julio and the Chamber of Deputies, and as a photojournalist for Milenio Diario.
 
 My first documentary film "To Enlist" was recognized with the Jose Rovirosa Award for Best Student Documentary in 2014 and the Young Collective Medium Length Award at Santiago Alvarez in Memoriam Festival (Cuba) in 2015. I received the National Geographic Covid-19 grant for developing the first chapter of the Pandemic Babies project and I received with Tortugas al Viento’s collective the Co-investment grant for our multimedia project Here sun dawns later.


My photographic work has been collectively exhibited in different parts of the world: 2019. Mexico City. Desde nosotras, 2017. EUA. Enamorados de la Mujer Barbuda. Ciudad de México. Fotografía Contemporánea,  2016. Chile. Sin título, ca. Programa cultural Tierra Adentro, 2015. México. Todo por ver, 2010-2011. México. La ciudad y sus quinceañeras.  


I believe in sharing and in continuous learning, reason why I participate in education programs whenever I can. I am currently collaborating with Procine’s Diploma Course as a teacher of the Cinematographic Direction one-week workshop and I work as a Professor of Aesthetics and Narrative Analysis in Audiovisual Projects, at the Communication Sciences Degree of the Mexican Autonomous National University.