Sara Terry (1955-2025) was a documentary photographer, filmmaker, and educator whose work focuses on how we define our humanity, and the role of community in creating that definition. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, a Sundance Documentary Fellow, and a contributing photographer to VII Foundation, publishing two books of photography and directing three feature-length documentary films. In 2024, she was named to Forbes Women’s 50 Over 50 list. A former reporter for The Christian Science Monitor and freelance magazine writer, Sara picked up a still camera in the late 1990s at a time when she lost her faith in words and never looked back.
Sara was an uncommonly generous teacher, mentor, and supporter of other photographers. While working on Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace, a project about the period following the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Sara came to believe that “war is only half the story.” She founded a nonprofit, The Aftermath Project, to help photographers tell the stories that follow conflict—of what it takes to rebuild lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war, and create new avenues for peace. Since 2007, The Aftermath Project has given more than $750,000 in grants to photographers.
The Aftermath Project is a non-profit organization driven by the idea that “War is only half the story,” supporting photographers committed to telling the other half of a conflict’s story through grants and educational programming.
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Celebrating the signature photographic voice of Sara Terry, who probed the nature of things that had broken—from personal relationships to whole societies—and how they might be repaired.
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1in6by2030 is a multi-year, global visual storytelling project, involving photographers around the world. Launched in 2023 by Ed Kashi, Ilvy Njiokiktjien and Sara Terry, all contributing photographers to the VII Foundation, 1in6by2030 documents an unprecedented era in the history of humankind: by the year 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be over the age of 60.
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“War is Only Half the Story” is a ten-year retrospective of the work of grant winners and finalists of the groundbreaking nonprofit, The Aftermath Project.
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Learn MoreThe Economic Hardship Reporting Project presents a discussion with four of our video grantees about the process of making visual works that address important American aftermath issues, including: the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North; urban neglect; and the cultural conflict over abortion sparked by Roe v. Wade.
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