Daniel Grotta & Sally Wiener Grotta

"My photography and my writing inform and strengthen each other, coming, as they do, from the same instinct for storytelling. Capturing the small details, the nuanced gesture, the ambience of the moment and the hidden meaning, in words or pictures, that's what makes me feel excited to be alive. Of course, then I get to manipulate it, to express the essential core... as I see it."
– Sally Wiener Grotta

Billy Collins

The Wordsmiths Project

A Photo Arts Project
by Sally Wiener Grotta


Photographer, author and digital artist Sally Wiener Grotta is creating portraits of the people who influence what we read... editors, publishers, literary agents, and others. She is focusing her camera and digital palette not only on those who have already made significant contributions to American Literature, but also on those who are up-and-coming.

To view Sally's images from previous projects, click on the showcase link to the right.

If you have any suggestions of individuals Sally should consider photographing for The Wordsmiths Project, please contact her by clicking on the email link to the right. (Please put Wordsmiths in the subject line of your email.)

The resulting exhibition & its opening reception will be a fund-raiser for the Writers Emergency Assistance Fund (WEAF) of the American Society of Journalists & Authors

For information on the WEAF, click here.
To read how WEAF helped one writer, click here.