Bio

Sasha Tycko is an anthropologist, photographer, and filmmaker and a PhD candidate at Emory University. Her current work focuses on the Atlanta forest at the center of the conflict over “Cop City,” where she integrates ethnographic research and a visual art practice to explore how the contested landscape—once the site of a city prison farm and antebellum plantation—motivates new articulations of history, nature, and ethics. Through this work, she has produced two films, "Dwelling: A Measure of Life in the Atlanta Forest" and "Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work," and a photography exhibition, “Ways of the Atlanta Forest." Her writing and photography has been published in n+1, Jewish Currents, Mergoat Magazine, Sixty Inches From Center, and elsewhere. Her co-authored essay "Not One Tree" (2023, n+1) was awarded the Krause Essay Prize.

Sasha has also been a DJ, punk guitarist, barista, zine monger, music programmer, shop girl, museum guard, radio host, and "female sound guy" (FSG). Her favorite job was working as an A/V technician in the bowels of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Maine.