Sasha Phyars-Burgess was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian parents and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Bard College with a BA in Photography, studying with An-My Le, Tim Davis, Barbara Ess, Michael Vahrenwald, and Larry Fink.
She has focused on photography education as community empowerment and was artist in residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock in 2015.
