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Sarah R. Bloom is an artist and photographer working in the Philadelphia region. Her photos have been featured in The Daily Mail, Philadelphia Magazine and The Huffington Post. Philadelphia Magazine named her Best Visual Artist in their 2015 Best of Philly Issue. Bloom's work has been exhibited in the State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Perkins Center for the Arts, The Woodmere Museum and the Biggs Museum. Sarah is a current member of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Da Vinci Art Alliance, and Hidden City Philadelphia.


I began shooting self-portraits in 2006, the same time that I was returning to photography after dabbling in it as a teenager. My self-portrait work was my learning laboratory and soon after became my primary form of expression. That consideration has taken me into an abandoned series that spans my career, and daily self-portraits that keep me tethered. All of my work explores themes of aging, womanhood, and our notions of self on a broad scale, while also diving inward to explore my own grapplings with depression, fear, acceptance and grief as I move through this world. My daily series for the past several years have used self-imposed parameters. The year 2023, for example, were all long exposures, black & white, and square format.

A Coming Extinction
Digital Photograph, long exposure, self-portrait
12x12 inches

Just A Little Overgrown
Digital Photograph, long exposure, self-portrait
12x12 inches