Sabina louise pierce's photo Blog

Best of American Society Of  Media  Photographers & Best of Time Magazine’s

Photography is…

My passion. It’s what gets me up in the morning and what I dream of at night.
Documenting, reacting, capturing, and creating what happens in front of me is play…pure play, and I am lucky, no blessed that I can make a living doing what I love.

I picked up my first camera when I was 8. I took a picture of my little pony close-up and contorted. Though after getting the photo back from the lab it wasn’t like any photo I’d ever seen, so at 8 years old I decided photography wasn’t a career for me. I tore it up, put down the camera and never picked one up again.

While at university I signed up for a basic photography as a filler and to this day I will always remember the photograph from that class that changed my life – two soccer players, a ball, a line, and a referee ready to snap his flag. It captured me, enraptured me and I’ve never looked back.

I just finished a book project called Lick Your Plate! Celebrity Chefs that cook for their dogs with Kit Feldman writing.. It will come out in bookstores Fall 2011 and is being published by Bowtie Press. The leading publisher of everything dog… need I say anymore!

The most memorable assignment so far was when I was choosen as exclusive photographer for injured Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro as he was convalesing at The University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton center. My photograph of Barbaro rising above the recovery pool (Pegasus) was picked by Time magazine as “One of the Best Photographs of 2006″. It was seen on every major news outlet including TV the next day. To be in the presence of such a bright and complex animal inspired me to create a book of text and photographs about him called For the Love of Barbaro that will hopefully be published someday when the economy is better. Pegasus, is in the American Museum of Natural History traveling exhibit Horses on a 6 x7 ft panel and also with a handful of my other photos is on exhibit at the Racing Museum in Saratoga, NY and the Kentucky Derby Musuem.

Through Barbaro I was chosen for the “Best of ASMP ” (American Society of Media Photographers) for my photos of his struggle to live and how it coincided with my own catostrophic racing injury of bursting my spinal column and compressing my spinal cord by 50% in a horse riding accident.  After being Medevaced to the trauma center the doctors told me that at 20% you are paralyized they said I was a miracle.  Though Barbaro was my inspiration to get through the painful ordeal. You may view my interview and photographs at ASMP >. I will forever be in awe of him.

Lastly I am featured in New York Times best selling author Ellyn Spragin’s book “If I Knew When” which is a compilation of letters from famous woman in their 30′s to their younger selves.

Hope you enjoy and check out my site for more photos.. sabinashoots.com

Some of my  clients are- The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Daily News , The Wall st. Journal, The Associated Press, PR Week, MMM Marketing magazine, SC magazine, Campbell’s Soup , The University of Pennsylvania’s Vet School, Med School & Hospital, McDonald’s, Verizon Wireless, TD Bank, Astra Zeneca, Wendy’s, McDonalds, and Nustar energy and more…..

My photos have appeared all over the world, including Newsweek, Time,  Sports Illustrated, People, Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, New York Times, Washington post, Wall st Journal, Bloodhorse, L.A.Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, Germany’s Glick, Australia’s Good Weekend Magazine.