Sade Fasanya

Sade is a Nigerian-American photographer, educator, community builder, and cofounder of the visual artist collective, Souls in Focus. Working across digital and analog mediums, her practice centers on identity, expression, African diasporic communities, and the visual language of everyday urban life. Sade’s works move fluidly across the photographic genres of portraiture, street photography, and social documentation. 

As the co-founder of visual artist collective Souls in Focus , Sade builds spaces to inspire, educate and connect the community to culture through varying visual media forms.

In addition to her field-based practice, she has been commissioned to document artists and creative processes within cultural institutions, bridging artistic production and institutional archives. Her work has been published in NPR, W Magazine, and Harvard’s Neiman Foundation for Journalism. Her photographs are held in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum and are currently on view in Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200.