Sebastian Widmann

The photo studio of Sebastian Widmann is located in the beautiful Dreimühlenviertel close to the river Isar in the heart of Munich. Sebastian works with magazines, agencies and companies in Germany and around the world. His pictures can be seen in company reports, in Magazines and Newspapers around the world. The Portraits of politicians, management, athletes, tv-hosts and workers are mostly made on location. He has been awarded the first place in the annual Sport Picture of the Year Competition - called Sven Simon Preis in 2013 and the second place in the same competition in 2014.

Sebastian was sent to Afghanistan by the GiZ to document water projects that were commissioned by the german government for the afghan people. Further more he traveled several times to Afghanistan with the German Bundeswehr to document the life and work of german soldiers in Kunduz and Masar-i-Sharif, where he also reported on the life of Afghan People.

Sebastian earned a bachelor of science in photojournalism and social sciences at San Jose State University after earning an Associates in the Arts Degree in Photography from Foothill College in Los Altos, CA. Upon his return to Munich, Germany Sebastian assisted the photographer Erol Gurian. From 2005 until 2007 Sebastian did an internship at the German Press Agency - dpa in Frankfurt and Hamburg.

For several years Sebastian has been an instructor at the prestigious Bayerischen Akademie der Presse in Munich and Akademie für Publizistik in Hamburg.

In 2009 Sebastian made Munich his home base again, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.