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sarah huny young is an award-winning photographer and visual artist primarily documenting and exalting Black womanhood and queer communities through portraiture and video. Framing her subjects as muses, she often shoots on-location in personal, intimate spaces and in nature. Clients and features include The New York Times, NBC News, ESPN, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and Pittsburgh City Paper.

huny received the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant in 2016 and 2020 to fund AMERICAN WOMAN, a now-retired portrait and documentary series about Black American women, and was named one of the most influential African-Americans of 2017 by The Root ("The Root 100"); “Who’s Next in Art” 2018 by The Incline; and one of “12 People to Meet in Pittsburgh 2018” by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is a 2020 recipient of a "Best in Pittsburgh" award for co-founding the Pittsburgh Artists Emergency Fund to assist gig workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, a 2021 "People of the Year" honoree (Pittsburgh City Paper) for her curation and advocacy in nightlife; and was most recently named a 2024 "Black LGBTQ+ Change-Maker in the Arts" by GLAD Law.

huny is a member of Diversify Photo, Women Photograph, The Authority Collective, and Black Women Photographers and a former Sibyls Shrine resident artist (2021) and "Marking this Moment" fellow via Kelly Strayhorn Theater (2020). Her work has been exhibited at The Mattress Factory Museum, The August Wilson African-American Cultural Center, Space Gallery, McDonough Museum of Art, Brew House Arts, Art Basel Miami, and more.

When she doesn't have a camera in her hand, she's definitely DJing around the country and curating Pittsburgh's queer nightlife scene via the Mostbeautifullest collective (aka The MoB).

For those interested in huny's overall sustainability as an artist and to support the creation of future, greater work, become a patreon at patreon.com/huny.