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SARAH PABST

CV

WORK EXPERIENCE 

INDEPENDENT PHOTOJOURNALIST  I 2015 - present 

Documentary projects focus on human rights, women, identity, environment and migration worldwide. 

Publications include National Geographic, Time, The New York Times, Financial Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Zeit, Der Spiegel, California Sunday Magazine and Washington Post, among others. 

Member of Ayün Fotógrafas, Women Photograph and regular contributor to Bloomberg News. 

WILDLING SHOES I ART DIRECTOR PHOTOGRAPHY I 2015 - present

Sustainable German minimalist shoe brand, development of photographical brand identity since the Start-Up in 2015,      community manager Instagram (2016-2019), campaigns, reportages.

PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURER AND TEACHER I 2012 - present

Adjunct lecturer for photography at the University of Wuppertal (2012-2014)

Visual storytelling workshops at Santa Talleres in Buenos Aires (2019 - 2020)

Lectures and panel talks in National Geographic Explorers Festival, Women Photograph Workshop and Campo LAT (ongoing)

GRANTS & AWARDS

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY - National Geographic Early Career Explorer Grant I 2021 

PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING - Reporter Grant I 2021

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS (IPA) - Honorable Mention, Press I 2021

PICTURE OF THE YEAR INTERNATIONAL (POYi) - 2. Prize: Covid-19 Personal Expression I 2021 

PICTURE OF THE YEAR (POY) LATAM - Iberoamerican Photographer of the Year, 2. Prize I 2021 // Single News 2. Prize // Nuestra Mirada - Award of Excellence

PARIS PHOTO AWARDS (PX3) - 2x Bronze I 2021

DAYLIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - Juror's Pick I 2021 

PHM WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS GRANT - Finalist I 2020

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY - Covid-19 Emergency Grant for Journalists, co-created project by Ayün Fotógrafas I 2020

EDDY ADAMS WORKSHOP - selected I 2020

LUCIE FOUNDATION - You, Me, We - Finalist I 2020

JOOP SWART MASTERCLASS - Nominee I 2016, 2017, 2019

ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM - selected I 2019

6x6 WORLD PRESS GLOBAL TALENT PROGRAMM - Nominee I 2018

NAVA COLLECTION - Winner I 2018

LENSCULTURE EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER - Winner I 2017

BURN EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS GRANT with MAGNUM FOUNDATION - Honorable Mention I 2017

ORGAN VIDA FESTIVAL - New Citizens - Winner I 2017

VOIES OFF - Les Rencontres d’Arles - Finalist - 2017

ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL - Main Exhibition Program - Winner I 2017

NANO FESTIVAL - Nano busca un autor - Winner I 2017

DESCUBRIMIENTOS PHOTO ESPAÑA - Selected I 2017

VICTOR ROLFF FOUNDATION - Production Grant - 2016

GOMMA GRANT - Finalist I 2016

FOLA FOTOTECA LATINOAMERICANA - Portfolio Winner I 2016
MAGNUM FIRST IMPRESSION - Portfolio Revisions, Visa pour l’Image - Selected I 2016

PICTURE OF THE YEAR (POY) LATAM - Women in Society - Winner, 3rd I 2015

PHOTOWERK BERLIN - Portrait Prize - Shortlisted I 2015

CANON PROFIFOTO GRANT - Winner I 2014

DAAD - Postgraduate Grant I 2013


Individual & group exhibitions


INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY (ICP), In Isolation - Group Exhibition I New York 2020

KUNSTHAUS RHENANIA, Beyond - Group Exhibition I Cologne 2019

488 GALLERY, Zukunft - Solo Exhibition - Curator: Romina Resuche I Buenos Aires 2018

LA FAENA, Curator: Mariana Maggio - Group Exhibition I Buenos Aires 2018

KLOMPCHING GALLERY, Lensculture Emerging Talents Winner Exhibition - Group Exhibition I New York 2018

ORGAN VIDA FESTIVAL, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, New Citizens - Group Exhibition I Zagreb 2017

FOLA FOTOTECA LATINOAMERICANA, Nano busca un Autor - Solo Exhibition I Buenos Aires 2017

ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL, BENAKI MUSEUM, Still Searching - Group Exhibition I Athens 2017

VOIES OFF, LES REENCONTRES D’ARLES, Group Screening I Arles 2017

METRO CIUDAD DE MEXICO, Mirarme a tus ojos - Group Exhibition I Ciudad de México 2017

FOLA FOTOTECA LATINOAMERICANA, Portfolio Winner Exhibition I Buenos Aires 2017

MUSEO FERNANDEZ BLANCO, Rara Avis - Group Exhibition I Buenos Aires 2016

SLIDELUCK BUENOS AIRES III, Reclusive - Group Screening I Buenos Aires 2016

NANO FESTIVAL, FOLA FOTOTECA LATINOAMERICANA - Zukunft - Solo Exhibition I Buenos Aires 2016

CANON PROFIFOTO GRANT, PHOTOKINA KÖLN - La Ultima Mirada I Cologne 2016

ESPACIO PEÑA, Hotel - Curator: Mariana Maggio - Group Exhibition I Buenos Aires 2015

PHOTOWERK BERLIN, Portrait Prize I Berlin 2015

BLACK BOX GALLERY, Portraits in Photography I Portland 2015

IBEROAMERICAN INSTITUTE (IAI), La Salada Project - Combined Exhibition with Federico Mata Rosas I Berlin 2015

MUSEUM FOR FEMALE ART, Troubled Land I Fulda 2015

MUSEO DE ARTE DECORATIVO, Just Mothers - Group Exhibition as a part of Stephanie Sinclair's Exhibition Too young to wed I Buenos Aires 2014

M.A.R. MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & MUSEO VILLA VICTORIA OCAMPO, La Salada Project - Group Exhibition El Borde I Mar del Plata 2014

MUSEO VILLA VICTORIA OCAMPO, Transformadoras - Individual screening I Mar del Plata 2013

EPIKUR GALLERY, Nicht alles was glitzert ist Disco - Group Exhibition - Paintings I Wuppertal 2012

DEFACTO GALLERY, Bolivia, Brasil, Argentina - Individual Exhibition I Lübeck 2010

STELLA VON BAUM PRIZE, Mujeres de Piedras, Mujeres de Coca I Wuppertal 2010

WORKSHOPS

PHOTOBOOK AS AN OBJECT I 2019

Yumi Goto 

FoLa, Buenos Aires

AL LIMITE DEL ACTO FOTOGRAFICO I 2018

Antoine d’Agata

FoLa, Buenos Aires

LA FAENA I 2015-2018

Mentoring since 2019

Mariana Maggio 

Buenos Aires

ESCUCHANDO IMAGENES I 2016

 Claudi Carreras

Turma, Buenos Aires

MAQUETAS Y FOTOLIBROS - CORTE Y CONFECCION I 2016

Veronica Fieiras 

Turma, Buenos Aires

NOS LIMITES DO ATO FOTOGRAFICO I 2015

Antoine d’Agata

Paraty em Foco

DE LA PROPUESTA A LA MAQUETA, DE LA MAQUETA AL FOTOLIBRO I 2015

Gonzalo Golpe

Turma, Buenos Aires

PHOTOJOURNALISM AND STORYTELLING I 2013-2015

Leo Liberman 

Buenos Aires

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Lecturer for Photography, University of Wuppertal, 2012-2015; 

Visual Storytelling, Santa Talleres, 2019-2020 

PUBLICATIONS

Time, The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, The Financial Times Magazine, Der Spiegel, The Wall Street Journal, Dummy, California Sunday Magazine, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Market Magazine, Annabelle, Burnmagazine, Juxtapoz Magazine, Vice Magazine, Lensculture, Le Monde Diplomatique, K-Geld, Zeit Online, Profifoto, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Max Planck Journal, among others. 

CURATOR EXPERIENCE

"Provisorio Permanente" - Nora Jacobs, Andreus Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2018). 

JUROR EXPERIENCE

Open Call on Female Photography, Museum for Female Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015)

SCHOLARSHIPS

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) One-Year-Grant for doctoral candidates, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2013)

Paul & Maria Krämer Foundation for „Mujeres de Piedra, Mujeres de Coca - Women in Bolivia, Grant for Photography Thesis at University of Wuppertal (2009-2010).

EDUCATION

Master of Education (= State Examination in Fine Arts and Spanish) 2011, Universities of Cologne & Wuppertal, Germany

Phd in Art History on Documentary Photography since 2012, University of Wuppertal 

INSTAGRAM

Verified (2020)

Takeover Burndiary (2015)

Takeover Photographic Museum of Humanity (2015)

Featured Instagram Photographer (2015)

Instagram Photo of the week (2014)