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 and nature. Through this work, she has produced two films, "Dwelling: A Measure of Life in the Atlanta Forest" (2023, 40 min.) and "Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work" (co-produced with Marion Lary, 2023, 12 min.) and a photography exhibition, “Ways of the Atlanta Forest" (2025, Institute 193). Her writing and photography has been published in n+1, Jewish Currents, Mergoat Magazine, Sixty Inches From Center, and elsewhere. Her essay "Not One Tree" (co-authored with Grace Glass, 2023, n+1) was awarded the Krause Essay Prize. She received her BA at the University of Chicago.

Sasha has also been a DJ, punk guitarist, barista, zine monger, music programmer, shop girl, museum guard, radio host, and "female sound guy." At earning an hourly wage, she was happiest with her big ring of keys and after-hours access as an audiovisual technician at the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Maine.