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" (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." Her favorite job was working as an A/V technician at the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Maine.