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Summer workshops

I’m thrilled to be teaching around the world this summer where new places bring different graces…

Please come join me in Maine, SantaFe or Norway.

Check out the details  on my teaching page. Hope to see you this summer.

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12 Jun '11

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Scenes from recent work

Excerpts from five recent projects where I directed and also did the cinematography. I’d love it if you watch the full films

The full versions of these stories were edited by Linda Hattendorf (Namibia), Chad Stevens (New Orleans), Scott … Read More

2013 workshops

“Bob Sacha taught me to think about storytelling in a completely different, and much more effective, way than I ever had before.” … Chris Linder, photographer, scientist and multimedia producer

“Bob Sacha changed the way I work. … Read More

digital dreamscape: lucid photography

This is an interactive portfolio, click on the arrows to cycle through the images (and my dreams).

Every Sunday I’m left as an internet widow by my partner, who writes the wildly popular website Gastropoda. So while she was … Read More

20 Feb '10

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1 Magazine 3.5 minutes 21 years.

Published work from National Geographic Magazine.

Here’s a selection of the photography I published in National Geographic Magazine, on assignment for more than 20 years.

How fast time flies…

Thanks to Pamela Chen who wrote the music.

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Far Away Lands

This is short film I made with a point-and-shoot pocket-sized digital camera.

It was the opening piece for a lecture on travel photography at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY. The series was … Read More

Poverty in the Face of Resource Wealth

I know what “transparency” is but mostly from my days as a photojournalist working with color slide film. So when the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) came to MediaStorm to create a multimedia piece explaining what they did, it took … Read More

Student work from 2009 Workshops, Part II

National Geographic Expeditions On Assignment: Santa Fe, New Mexico Workshop 2009

I had the pleasure of leading nine very eager photographers, young and old, through some “assignments” near Santa Fe, New Mexico as part of a National Geographic Expeditions Photography … Read More

10,000 Cups

Starbucks brought their “partners” to New Orleans, 10,000 strong, for a management conference but also to pitch in for 4 hours each of community service. Yes, that’s 40,000 hours of community service. It was a wonderful thing to see.

I … Read More

Student work from 2008 Workshops

MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop, May, 2008

We do a lot of very serious stories at work so it was fun to find something lighter during the first MediaStorm workshop in NYC. Fellow MediaStorm producers Eric Maierson, Chad Stevens and … Read More