POPPIPIX is photographer and actress Sara Kay, a native of upstate New York now based in Los Angeles. Her grandparents' dog earred copy of "The Best of LIFE" (Time, Inc. 1973) introduced Sara to the art of photography and piqued her interest in portraiture and the photo essay, inspiring her to chronicle the efforts and antics of her high school boys' baseball team for her first essay. With a degree in Political Science from The State University of New York at Albany to "fall back on", Sara's theatrical ambitions led her to the actors' haven of Manhattan where she studied and performed Off-Off-Off Broadway and in independent films. L.A. soon beckoned and Sara moved west. As she crossed the country, camera in tow, signage and water were subjects of her next photo essays. In 2000, while on location in Brazil, Sara's interest in photography reached a new level, and upon returning to L.A., she began studying the photographic arts at Santa Monica College. Today, Sara regularly shoots headshots for actors and actresses and continues her documentary work with a series devoted to men and women at work.

"I love the collaborative process that occurs when photographing people, the energy and spontaneity of a shoot. I strive to capture the pure moments when a subject is their true self before the camera." -- SKR

Life, that's scarce a hundred years,
Holds millenniums of fears.
Brief its noon, and long its night:
Best then mingle dark with light.
Merry-making whiles ye may:
Wait not for another day.
Fools that treasure up their stock
After-generations mock.
Him that held a bond with fate
None may seek to emulate

--Nineteen Old Poems
(Eastern Han Dynasty, 25-220 A.C.)
translation by John A. Turner