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

Archival imagery represented through

Flash 90, Jerusalem/Israel;

KNA, Bonn/Germany and

Weser Kurier, Bremen, Germany

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