Sarah L. Glabman watching elephants at sunset in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Okavango Delta, Botswana
The Photographer

Sarah L. Glabman

Fine art landscape and wildlife photographer. Scottsdale, Arizona.

Sarah L. Glabman with her camera on a tripod in the mist
The Career

Before fine art, there was a commercial career. For more than twenty years Sarah L. Glabman photographed magazine covers, advertising campaigns and billboards seen in Times Square, on the Las Vegas Strip and across Los Angeles. She knows briefs, deadlines, art directors and production specs, and she knows what an image has to do when it is seen from across a street.

In 2024 a journey through Africa turned that career toward the wild. Standing among elephants in Botswana and watching first light reach the dunes of Namibia, she found her way back to why she picked up a camera. Today her work is devoted to fine art landscape and wildlife photography, from the glacier lagoons of Iceland to the brown bear coasts of Alaska and the canyons of the American Southwest.

That combination is what clients get: a fine artist's patience in the field and a commercial photographer's discipline in delivery. Her images are licensed for campaigns, publications and properties, built into art programs for hotels, private aviation and workplaces, and commissioned on location. Every one is an original in-camera photograph, never AI-generated.

Sarah holds a Master of Photography and is a PPA and AZPPA Certified Photographer, based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Quick Facts

Sarah L. Glabman at a glance.

Name
Sarah L. Glabman
Based in
Scottsdale, Arizona
Discipline
Fine art landscape, wildlife and aerial photography
Experience
More than twenty years as a professional photographer: magazine covers, advertising campaigns and billboards in Times Square, Las Vegas and Los Angeles
Field work
Iceland, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, California, Colorado and the American Southwest
Credentials
Master of Photography · PPA and AZPPA Certified Photographer
Services
Image licensing, art programs for hospitality, private aviation and workplaces, and commissions
Press
Press kit, bios and story angles
Virtual showroom
Walk the collection in 3D on any device or in VR
Collector editions
SLG.art
Contact
hello@slg.art
The Philosophy

Quiet attention. Honest light.

Sarah works as a guest in the wild, never a director. She is drawn to scenes that reward the person who slows down: a canyon that only speaks if you sit with it, an animal that shows itself on its own terms.

"My goal is not simply to document a place, but to preserve the feeling of standing there." The hope is that each image carries that same quiet attention into the room, the page or the story it lives in.

Real Photographs

Captured through the lens. Never generated.

Every image begins as a real photograph, captured in-camera, by me, at a real place and moment. Nothing is generated by artificial intelligence. No invented scenes, no AI-created skies or wildlife.

Like the master landscape photographers before me, my finishing process is an art of its own: careful adjustments to exposure, contrast and color and, on occasion, blending elements from my own photographs to realize a scene as I experienced it. Whatever appears in a finished piece was captured through my own lens.

The One, fine art photograph of Namibia by Sarah L. Glabman
The OneNamibia
The Virtual Showroom

See the work at scale.

Walk a 3D gallery where every piece hangs at true scale, on your phone, your laptop or a VR headset. For a project, Sarah prepares true-scale mock-ups in your own space before anything is produced.

Enter the virtual showroom
Diamonds in the DarkDiamond Beach, South Iceland
Work With Sarah

Let's make something that lasts.

Licensing, commissions, art programs or press. Sarah replies personally.