Sarah Waters is an Oregon-based portrait and personal brand photographer known for her storytelling style, emotional depth, and modern documentary approach.

She specializes in photographing women over 40, entrepreneurs, authors, CEOs, online business owners, and thought leaders who want authentic, high-impact imagery.

Sarah is also an adoptee and mixed-heritage artist whose personal fine-art work explores belonging, identity, lineage, and the soul of America.

Sarah is based in Oregon (serving Bend, Redmond, Portland, and Central Oregon), but she regularly travels nationwide for brand photography, personal brand sessions, business storytelling projects, and her Women Over 40 Portrait Experience.

She is photographing on the road during 2026 for a large-scale project called like “Belonging in America: A Search for Home on Route 66”.

Sarah Waters is a storytelling portrait photographer who specializes in personal brand photography, modern headshots, and women over 40 portrait experiences. She blends fine-art sensitivity with strong visual branding to create true to life images for entrepreneurs, authors, speakers, coaches, and thought leaders.

She also creates documentary-style photography and identity-based personal projects, including her upcoming Route 66 project, Belonging in America: A Search for Home on the Mother Road.

Sarah regularly photographs authors, coaches, CEOs, founders, healers, creatives, mission-driven and women-led businesses.

Her work supports individuals and businesses who need content libraries for website re-brands, LinkedIn profile portraits, events and speaking engagements, book covers, and editorial features.

Yes. Sarah offers fine-art prints and limited editions from her personal and documentary photography, including identity-based work, the Route 66 project, and other fine-art collections.

Her work and her father George Waters Jr’s works, are available for collectors, galleries, publications, and exhibitions.

You can inquire through her website contact form, schedule a consultation call, or request information about branding sessions, portraits, travel dates, or project collaborations.

Custom sessions and nationwide travel are available.

Sarah Waters blends fine-art storytelling with modern brand photography, creating images that feel real, emotional, and deeply connected.

Her work is influenced by her background as an adoptee, her mixed Mexican-American and Norwegian heritage, and her family’s legacy in photography through her father, who worked closely with Ansel Adams.

This gives her portraits a rare combination of authenticity, sensitivity, and visual clarity.

Yes. Sarah photographs corporate teams, leadership groups, startups, and organizations that want polished, modern, approachable branding images across their website, PR, and internal communications.

She offers on-site company headshots, lifestyle team photography, and full brand story sessions for businesses throughout Oregon and nationwide.

Sarah’s clients span multiple industries including wellness, tech, coaching, authorship, food and beverage, design, consulting, healthcare, personal development, and small business entrepreneurship.

She specializes in photographing thought leaders, CEOs, founders, and women-led businesses who want to elevate their brands with meaningful, story-driven imagery.

A branding session includes a pre-session deep dive strategy call, wardrobe guidance, location planning, storytelling prompts, lifestyle and portrait images, website-ready photos, and social media content.

Sarah focuses on authenticity and emotional connection, capturing natural moments that feel human, credible, and visually strong.

Belonging in America: A Search for Home on Route 66 is Sarah’s major 2026 documentary and fine-art photography project.

She will travel the full length of Route 66 to photograph 100 people and document their stories of identity, origin, family, loss, and belonging — while exploring her own adoptee story, photographic lineage, and the soul of America.

The project will culminate with a book, and exhibition.

Yes. Sarah welcomes individual supporters, brand sponsors, cultural organizations, and partners who want to invest in a once-in-a-century American storytelling project.

Opportunities include funding travel and fuel, supporting documentary production, sponsoring equipment, or collaborating with the book and exhibition.