Sabine van Wechem is a Dutch photographer and graduated with honors from the Photo Academy in 2019. She has a background as a creative producer in advertising and lives and works in Amsterdam.
Through photography and film she investigates how people live in a physically or socially enclosed environment while simultaneously creating a form of freedom.
Van Wechem works on long-term documentary stories and often focus on central themes as intimacy and society. She wonder how people move in certain circumstances and how they find their path despite expectations, social context or the place where they were born.
She works on a global scale, currently she continues her work on a long term multimedia series covering life in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Sabine van Wechem works currently at the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, for creative companies, continues her education through masterclasses and she works on new stories.
