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 the Monitor's public radio show. She moved from there into freelance magazine writing, with her work appearing in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Boston Globe Magazine and other publications. She was also a frequent guest host for the national public radio, 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. She led three Aftermath photography workshops for students from the Institute for Global Leadership in Uganda, India, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and Houston, Texas.
One of her most recent ongoing projects is 1in6by2030.