Portfolio

Sarah Borell

A curated collection of my most meaningful photo and visual work — from the ballpark to the archive.

Major League Baseball

MLB Photo Features

Large-scale photo stories produced for MLB.com — capturing iconic moments across the 2021 season.

2021

Field of Dreams Game

The White Sox and Yankees met in Dyersville, Iowa for the first-ever MLB game at the Field of Dreams movie site — a night where baseball and cinema became one.

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2021

Home Run Derby Through Photos

Pete Alonso defended his crown in a dramatic 2021 Home Run Derby at Coors Field — captured from every angle in a comprehensive photo essay.

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2021

All-Star Game Through Photos

The best in baseball gathered in Denver for the 2021 Midsummer Classic — a visual journey through one of the sport's marquee events.

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The New York Times

NYT Photo & Archive Work

Interactive features, visual investigations, and archive projects produced at The New York Times — telling stories through millions of photographs.

2020 · Interactive

The Suffrage Movement in Photos

A visual history of the women's suffrage movement told through archival photographs — tracing the fight for the vote from its earliest days to the 19th Amendment.

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2019 · Feature

NFL at 100: Violence & American Culture

An examination of professional football's first century — exploring the intersection of violence, spectacle, and American identity through vivid photography.

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2019 · Interactive

Dance Photography from the Archives

Unearthing the beauty and power of dance through decades of archival photographs — from ballet to modern, captured by legendary Times photographers.

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2018 · Interactive

California: A Visual History

The story of California told through photographs — from the Gold Rush to the modern era, documenting the state's dramatic evolution and enduring mythology.

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2019 · Interactive

Moon Landing: Watching in Vintage Photos

How the world watched the Apollo 11 moon landing — a collection of vintage photographs capturing the wonder and communal awe of July 1969.

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2019 · Google Cloud Blog

Finding Untold Stories in Millions of Archived Photos

How The New York Times partnered with Google Cloud and AI/machine learning to surface untold stories hidden within millions of archival photographs.

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2019 · Reader Center

Past Tense: A Million Photos from the Archive

An inside look at the massive effort to digitize, catalog, and breathe new life into over a million photographs from The New York Times photo archive.

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2026 · NYT Company

The Times Celebrates 175 Years in Times Square

The New York Times kicked off its 175th anniversary with the New Year's Eve ball drop — a tradition The Times helped create — celebrating a legacy of independent, fact-based reporting.

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Sports Illustrated

SI on Campus

Photography work produced for Sports Illustrated on Campus.

SI on Campus — January 29, 2004
January 29, 2004

SI on Campus Cover

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SI on Campus — September 9, 2003
September 9, 2003

SI on Campus Cover

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SI on Campus — September 16, 2003
September 16, 2003

SI on Campus Cover

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