Sasha Phyars-Burgess

Sasha Phyars-Burgess (born 1988) is an American photographer. Her work explores her Trinidadian-American heritage, particularly in her 2021 book Untitled, and she is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow.

Biography Sasha Phyars-Burgess was born in 1988 in Brooklyn, and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

In February 2021, the Capricious Foundation published Phyars-Burgess' first monograph, Untitled, where her Trinidadian-American heritage is explored as a theme. Hannah Abel-Hirsch said that her book "depict everyday moments observed by Phyars-Burgess’ meditative lens [and] contribute to a photographic archive of Black life created by Black image-makers, depicting the fullness of their existence despite the continual threats against it; threats and violence which otherwise dominate contemporary representations of Black life." In 2023, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography. She has also served as artist-in-residence for the Maryland Institute College of Art's Photography + Media & Society MFA program.

Phyars-Burgess' series of photographs on "the global impact of sugar cane plantations on the people and land of the Black diaspora" were featured in the 2024 Lincoln University exhibition Ratoon. Phyars-Burgess announced that her Everything Nice project would later involve Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, and several African countries.

Living in Chicago in 2021,