Sara Terry: Biography

A former staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor and a founding reporter of Monitor Radio, Sara Terry made a mid-career transition to documentary photography in 1997. Her book, Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace, documents the struggles and triumphs of Bosnians trying to rebuild their lives and to restore a civil society. Her work on this subject inspired her to start the Aftermath Project, a nonprofit foundation, to help photojournalists document the aftermath of conflict.

At the Monitor, Terry worked nationally and internationally, developing a focus on social justice issues and cultural critiquing. She was the lead reporter on the Monitor's 1987 groundbreaking series, "Children in Darkness," about the exploitation of children in the developing world. She has won several awards for her work, including two from the Overseas Press Club. She was featured in the 1991 book Women on Deadline as one of the top ten female reporters in the United States, for her international reporting.

Throughout the 1990s she worked as a freelance writer for publications such as the New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, Rolling Stone, and the Boston Globe Magazine. As a freelancer she reported on a range of subjects, from the torture and assassination of street children by death squads in Guatemala to grassroots efforts in America to bridge the "digital divide."

In 2005, Terry received an Alicia Patterson fellowship for her photography, which allowed her to continue documenting the aftermath of war in Bosnia. She is represented by Polaris Images.