Sarah Zak

Sarah Zak doesn't retouch. She doesn't pose. She doesn't shoot digital. What she does is point a 35mm camera at women and capture something most photography spends its energy erasing — the raw, unedited truth of a body at ease.

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Born in Germany with Polish roots among musicians and artists, Sarah started her career as a hairstylist and makeup artist, spending years making models look the way brands wanted them to look. Beautiful, sure — but artificial. At some point she realized she didn't want to create beauty anymore. She wanted to show it. So she grabbed an analog camera and started asking women — agency models, strangers on the street, long-time friends — to sit in front of it. That impulse became Sarahlikesprettygirls, a project that has since grown into two published photo books (Berlin and Mexico City), gallery exhibitions, features on Singulart, and a loyal following that gets what she's doing: celebrating the feminine form through the female gaze, no Photoshop, no pretense.

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At Lola, her work is presented as raw analogue photography in special floating frame editions — body landscapes that feel intimate without being voyeuristic, tender without being tame. Shot entirely on 35mm film, the images carry that analog warmth: soft grain, imperfect light, the kind of closeness that only happens when someone trusts the person behind the lens. And trust is Sarah's currency — she builds it before every shoot, communicates clearly, and treats each subject with real respect. You can feel it in every frame.

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Before the camera, there were some detours. She once worked as a makeup artist on a porn set — which, if nothing else, taught her exactly what she didn't want her work to feel like. Her friends call her Żabka (Polish for frog). Her superpower is bringing the right people together. She's passionate about travel, her guilty pleasure is ice cream, and if she were a flavor she'd be salted caramel — sweet and salty. She can whistle like nobody's business, and she's unreasonably proud of the most absurd thing she's ever done: leaving her safe space years ago and starting this whole artistic journey with no money and no formal training.
Now based in Mexico City, Sarah keeps doing what she set out to do — finding beauty where it already lives, and letting it speak for itself. One frame at a time.

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