Sara Terry

Director, Fambul Tok

A former staff correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and magazine freelance writer, Sara Terry made a mid-career transition into photojournalism and documentary photography in the late 1990s. Her long-term project about the aftermath of war in Bosnia, “Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace,” was published in 2005 by Channel Photographics. Her work has been widely exhibited, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and in many private collections. In 2005, she received a prestigious Alicia Patterson Fellowship for her work in Bosnia. She is the founder of The Aftermath Project (www.theaftermathproject.org), a nonprofit grant program which helps photographers cover the after effects of conflict. Based on the conviction that “War is only half the story,” the Aftermath Project seeks to affect media and public understanding of the true cost of war and the real price of peace through its grant program, exhibitions, publications and educational outreach. Fambul Tok is her first documentary film. She was awarded a 2009 Sundance Documentary Institute grant for the film. A 2010 IFP Doc Lab Fellow, Terry is currently at work on her second documentary, about the subculture of American folk music.