This is Sebi
documentary photographer, photo editor and journalist.
Currently working as a photo editor at ZEIT Online and ZEIT Wissen magazine
I focus on long-term photography projects about middle and near east,
editorial portraiture and multimedia assignments.
Feel free to contact me!
Sebastian Berens
contact@sebiberensphoto.com
+49 176 808 51934
Currently based between Berlin and Hamburg, Germany
Timeline:
2023 – Present – ZEIT Online – Picture Editor
2022 – 2023 – ZEIT Wissen Magazine – Picture Editor
2020 – 2023 – DIE ZEIT – Picture Editor – Volunteer
2019 – 2020 – Picture editor – intern at GEO Magazine, Hamburg
2018 – Photography Class at Pathshala South Asian Media School, Bangladesh
2017 – Internship at News agency Flash 90, Jerusalem
2014 – 2021 – Bachelor of Arts in “Photojournalism and documentary photography”
school Hanover, Germany
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Archival imagery represented through
Flash 90, Jerusalem/Israel;
KNA, Bonn/Germany and
Weser Kurier, Bremen, Germany
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Workshops:
2019 || Multimedia Storytelling with Uwe H. Martin
2017 || Noor Workshop – Berlin, Germany
2017 || Selected for Magnum/Canon workshop at
Visa pour l’image in Perpignan
Prices/Mentionings
2020 – Shortlisted – Festival della Fotografia Etica
World Report Award – Student Award
2020 – BGW Germany – 4th place – “Sich Zeit nehmen”
2017 – Felix Schoeller Award – Shortlisted (Emerging Photographer)
2017 – Moscow International Photo Award – “Gold”: Editorial – Photo Essay
2017 – Moscow International Photo Award – “Silver”: Editorial – General News
2017 – Fine Art Photography Award – “Nominee” in Photojournalism
Exhibitions:
2017 || Photojournalism from Hannover.Now –
VISA Off 2017 – Perpignan, France
2017 || “Tohuwabohu” – Kukoon, Bremen
2017 || “Momenti” – Inside Jerusalem’s Churches
Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem
2014 || “Balata” – invisible Prison
Kobalde und Liebe Festival / Koblenz/Germany
2012 || “One Wall for Analog”
Burhard Roeder Ausstellung || Dortmund
Books:
“momenti” – Inside Jerusalem Churches
2017 || Softcover || 50 Pieces
(no longer available)
”Jerusalem – 13 Kirchen: Ein kurzer Führer” –
AphorismA Verlag Berlin 2019
136 S. || Hardcover || ISBN 978-3-86575-050-1
Publications:
GEO, GEO Saison, DIE ZEIT, Sueddeutsche Zeitung,
Handelsblatt, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, taz and a handful more