Sarah Plenge

creative, outside

Sarah Plenge is a dynamic, California-based artist working primarily in the mediums of photography and writing. As both an amphibious outdoorswoman and multifaceted storyteller, she strives to center the natural world and its caretakers through a cross-cultural lens. She is always eager to collaborate with like-minded photography communities both at home and abroad. 

After venturing to the edges of the world for the better part of a decade, she has since moved out of her native Los Angeles and up the coast to engage with more rugged landscapes. As a photographer, she prioritizes her subjects' dignity with compassion from her own lived experiences. She offers the gentle complexity of the female perspective in examining the intersection at which people merge with their respective environments. Her dexterity is evident in her obsession with being underwater, where she is frequently mistaken for a seal – save for her hot pink water housing.

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exhibitions

Diva Cup for Femme Futures at Cruise Control Cambria, Cambria, USA (2025) | Orange County Fair: Color Photography, Sports Division, Costa Mesa, USA (2025) | Libations at Studios on the Park, Paso Robles, USA (2025) | Shifting Tides: High Tide Session, Los Angeles, USA (2024) | Orange County Fair: Color Photography, Architecture Division, Costa Mesa, USA (2024) | Te quiero, mámá at Film Scouts, Los Angeles, USA (2024) | Shopify x Venice Photo Club at the Shopify Headquarters, Los Angeles, USA (2023) | Artillery Magazine at the Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2022) | École Publique, Montréal, Canada (2019)

awards

Orange County Fair: First Place, Sports Division (2025) | Artillery Magazine: Code Orange: Submission Winner(2021) 

features

KCBX 50th Anniversary (2025) | “Pura Vida, Algo Así”, Daybreak, Volume 6 (2024) | Emocean, Volume 6 (2024) |  Photoworks SF Guest, Volume 2 (2024) | Indisposable Concept (2024) | Venice Photo Club, Volume 4 (2021) | “Traveling against time,” The Washington Post (2020) | “Learning who I am without travel”, Days to Come by Tourradar (2020) | SPEW Zine, Volume 2 (2019) | Easy Reader (2019) |  “The breakdown of McGill’s eating disorder program” The McGill Tribune (2018)| Lensculture | The Independent Photographer

publications

El RolloTiming, Volume 2 (2023) | El Rollo: Esperando (Waiting), Volume 1 (2020)

featured clients

Vast. | USA Surfing | Somma Special Designs | Surf Gems | Femme Futures | Queen of the Point | Malibu Surfing Association | Lasso surf | Kuleana Co.  | Indigo Garden | Illumine Collect | 423 Yoga | Surfrider Foundation: Los Angeles Chapter | Firestone Walker Brewing Co. | WAVES for Development

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