Sawyer Roque is a freelance filmmaker and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her experience in journalism and visual art informs her work. She has conducted projects worldwide, from Lima, Peru to Chiang Mai, Thailand and across the United States.
Sawyer graduated from Western Kentucky University, where she studied photojournalism. She is a member of the Video Consortium and an affiliate member of the Documentary Cinematographers Alliance.
Sawyer’s services include video directing and producing; editorial, lifestyle, news, and portrait photography; and cinematography. She works as a local in New York City and Louisville, Kentucky and is currently a contract video producer at The New York Times.
exhibitions:
Museum of Arts & Design, Manhattan, 2025
The Living Portrait of NYC, 2022
Hite Art Institute, 2021
University of Louisville Photographic Archives, 2021
Speed Art Museum Cinema, 2020
Louisville Film Society, 2020
select clients & publications:
The New York Times / The New York Times Magazine
The Wall Street Journal
FIFA
HBO
Adobe
Magnolia Network
ABC
AARP
Girls Who Code
Logitech