Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. She was born in Boston and studied both art history and photography at Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, DC. She worked at the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress and as a photojournalist for a newspaper in Virginia before moving to Chicago in 1996, where she founded the Filter Photo Festival. During her time in Chicago, she received Illinois Arts Council and Chicago Artist Grants, as well as several Fellowships to the Ragdale Foundation. In 2020, her first monograph Lost Venice was published by Damiani Editore.

Recently, Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo Fair (Italy), Fotofever (Paris), the Porto Photo Festival (Portugal), the Lishui Photo Festival (China), PhotoLA, the Worldwide Photography Biennial (Buenos Aires) and the Ballarat Festival (Australia), as well in galleries and museums around the US - most recently in solo exhibitions at the Richard Levy Gallery (Albuquerque), Afterimage Gallery (Dallas), the Griffin Museum of Photography (Boston), the dnj Gallery (Santa Monica), and Fabrik Projects Gallery (LA), as well as in group exhibitions at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Building Bridges Art Exchange (LA) and the Robin Rice Gallery (NY). Her work is held in museums, corporate & private collections, has been published in ELLE Italia, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Photo District News (PDN), The Oxford American, B&W Magazine, Harper’s, SHOTS, Lenscratch.com and The Sun.