Sara Terry: A Decent Home | City & Regional Planning Film Screening + Q&A

Sara Terry is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work in recent years has focused on class and economic equity. She is a Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a member of VII Photo, and a Sundance Documentary Fellow. Her most feature-length documentary, A Decent Home, explored the wealth gap through the landscape of mobile home parks and aired on PBS in March 2023. Terry began her career as a print reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, where she also helped start their public radio show. Her freelance work appears in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Boston Globe Magazine, and other publications.

Terry was also a frequent guest host for the National Public Radio show, “To the Point.” She picked up a still camera in the late 1990s at a time when she lost her faith in words and never looked back. Her early photography work, covering post-conflict Bosnia (“Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace”), led her to create The Aftermath Project, a grant-making photography non-profit based on the idea that “war is only half the story.” The Aftermath Project has been giving grants to photographers working in post-conflict settings around the world since 2007.