GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

Mackinac Island Artist in Residence, 2022

Knight Foundation Arts Challenge, 2019

National Geographic Support for Women, 2019

Scholarship to Bruce Gilden's Magnum Workshop, London, 2019

National Geographic Explorer Grant, 2017

Documenting Detroit Fellowship, 2016

Visura Personal Grant, Honorable Mention, 2016

AWARDS

Pictures of the Year International, Semi-Finalist COVID Personal Expression, 2021

Edward R. Murrow Awards, Excellence in Innovation, COVID Diaries, 2021

Smithsonian Photo Competition, Finalist, American Experience, 2019 & 2016

LensCulture, Street Photography, Finalist, 2018

Critical Mass/Photolucida, Top 50 Photographer, 2017

Scarab Club Photography Competition, 2nd Place, 2016; 3rd Place, 2014

National Geographic Traveler, Photo Contest, 5 Editor's Picks, 2014 & 2012

National Geographic Photo Contest, Editor's Picks, 2012 & 2011

PUBLISHED PHOTO ESSAYS

"Photo Gallery: A Tribute to Michigan's Ice Fishing Traditions," Field and Stream

"The Great Lakes depend on ice. This winter, they barely froze," National Geographic magazine, September 2020

"The End of Ice Fishing," HuffPost, 2020

"COVID Diaries," WDET Public Radio, 2020

"On the ice: Anglers rejoice when the Great Lakes freeze," National Geographic, 2019

"For Love & Money: Finding Roommates After 40," Topic, 2019

"Mysterious People," Dodho, 2018

"Travel Portfolio," WorldWide, 2018

"Detroit Stories: What Is This City Really All About?," LensCulture, 2018

"Summer Portfolio," Musee Magazine, 2017

"Meet Amy Sacka, who took 500 photos of Detroit in 500 days," PBS World News Hour, 2015

"Lost and Found in Detroit – in Pictures," the Guardian, 2014

"Amy Sacka, Detroit Photographer, Captures City Day at a Time For A Year," Huffington Post, 2013

BOOKS - GROUP

"FRAMED," by WDET, 2019

"Getting Your Shot," National Geographic, 2015

"Guide to Morocco," National Geographic Traveler, 2015

PRESS

“Angling for Ice," Detroit Public Television PBS, 2022

“Amy Sacka: Dissolving Division through Vision," Frames, 2021

"Best Photos of the Year So Far," National Geographic, 2020

"Courting the Ice: A Photojournalist's Pursuit of Great Lakes Ice Culture," Shinola, 2020

"Explorer Amy Sack on Why the Great Lakes Give Her Hope," National Geographic, 2020

"Michigan photojournalist captures the thawing of the Great Lakes," Michigan Public Radio, 2020

"Frozen: Detroit Photographer Documents Ice Culture in Michigan for National Geographic," Detroit Public Radio, 2019

"Detroit Photographer’s Stunning Photos of Ice Fishing in Michigan and Quest to Know Her Father," Detroit Public Radio, 2019

"8 Stories that will Help You See the World a Little Differently," BuzzFeed, 2019

"Detroit par le coeur," Fisheye, 2019

"Detroit Blues Culture," PDN Photo of the Day, 2018

"Photo a day project reflects newcomer's vision of Detroit," Detroit News, 2012

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Last Ice, Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 2022

Last Ice, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit, Michigan, 2021

Admit One: State Fair Portraits, Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, Michigan, 2021

Sundays at the Carpet House, Baltimore Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, 2016

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Street Photography, Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, Michigan, 2022

Framed by WDET: Places Where We Belong, Detroit, 2019

PerSIStence, Collected Detroit, Detroit, 2019

LensCulture Street Photography Exhibition, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France, 2018

Documenting Detroit, Photoville, Brooklyn, New York, 2017

Documenting Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 2017

Critical Mass 2017 Top 50 Exhibition: Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition, Cortona on the Move, Italy, 2017

Critical Mass 2017 Top 50 Exhibition: Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition, Edition One, Santa Fe, 2017

Acutal Size Biennial, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, 2016

No Place Like Detroit, Baltimore Gallery, Detroit, 2016

Midwest Contemporary, Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, 2016

Scarab Club Photography Exhibition, Detroit, 2016 & 2014

Brighton Photo Biennial, Night Contact, Brighton, UK, 2015

Eye on the D: Seeing Detroit with New Eyes, 555 Gallery, Detroit, 2015

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