About Sarah Bird Photography

Sarah is a professional female photographer from Brighton, East Sussex, specialising in on-location and studio portrait, fashion and wedding photography.

Her love of photography started at the age of 16 - inspired by her creative family, she bought her first film SLR camera and went off to college to study photography and media - specialising in black & white printing techniques, studio, macro and advertising photography and film. She gained a lot of commercial photography experience around that time helping at a local newspaper in their photographic department, assisting a local portrait photographer and also working at Pinewood Photographic Department developing images taken on film sets and promotional film photos.

In 1998, Sarah went to work at Scanit - a company specialising in graphics and high-res image scanning and manipulation for magazines. It was there that she developed her photo manipulation skills using Photoshop - editing, colour correcting and manipulating photographs for magazines.

Since moving to Brighton in 2004, she has developed a great passion for portrait, fashion & travel photography - which has taken her around UK, France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy & USA.

She takes inspiration from many famous photographers such as Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Annie Leibovitz and a whole host of fashion photographers.