Photographer, architect, and writer Micah Sarut’s award-winning work clearly reflects the influence of his architectural education, delighting in the interplay of light and shadow and their effects on form, texture, and colour. Earning degrees in architecture and East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Southern California laid the foundation for his first major artistic influence, a year at Waseda University in Tokyo. This influence constantly informs his work to this day. His preferential use of large panoramic formats usually reserved for landscape photography creates a new and unusual perspective and conveys powerful drama with the simple and often everyday, urban subject matter. He invites the observer to look beyond the first glance, and eventually the perceived simplicity dissolves to divulge the detailed and multi-layered secrets.

He has recently won first prize in the Independent on Sunday travel photography awards in the UK, and shoots for Insight Guides. He is also a widely published and award-winning architect (reg: Netherlands) and travel writer with a monthly column for the US version of I am staggered.com. Find his architecture at www.interurbanstudios.com.



Exhibitions:

2011 "For Japan", group show, Hotshoe Gallery, London, UK

2010 "Our Farmers, Our Food", group show, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
2010 "Our Farmers, Our Food", group show, Deep Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2010 Group show, Capital Garage, Sacramento, CA

2009 "Explorations I" solo show Lookup Gallery, Folsom, CA
2009 Annual Show (group) Beatnik Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2009-2010 Selected Works, Larry Young Galleries, Folsom, CA

Awards:

2009 Insight Guides/Independent on Sunday Travel Photography Competition, First Prize
2001 Roseville City Hall Public Art Competition, First Place (collaboration)
2000 University of California, Santa Barbara, Urban Design Competition, Third Place

Publications:

2011 Insight Guides, photography for new edition of the Baltic States
2010 Travel Expert and monthly columnist for US version of Iamstaggered.com
2007 Building Design, First Look section, 148 Langton Way, London, UK (with ACA)
2004 Blueprint, 'Architecture in the Lagoon', Venice Architecture Biennale, Drugstore Publicis, Paris (with Michele Saee)
2004 Wallpaper*, Drugstore Publicis, Paris, France (with Michele Saee)
2004 Arch100, Drugstore Publicis, Paris, France (with Michele Saee)
2000 University of Southern California Chronicle, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, USA