Sarah Pabst is a German-born (1984) documentary photographer and painter based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Besides her personal intimate work she mainly focuses on women and identity topics. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.

In 2017 and 2016 she was nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass and a finalist for the Gomma Grant 2016. She has been selected for Descubrimientos at Photo España both in 2017 and 2016. In 2016 she was also selected for the Magnum Portofolio Revisions at Visa Pour L'Image. She was awarded with the 3. Prize in the 'Women in Society' Category of the Picture of the Year (POY) LATAM in 2015, the Canon Profifoto Grant in 2014 and her work was published in California Sunday Magazine, Bloomberg Newsweek, Burnmagazine, Le Monde Diplomatique, Juxtapoz Magazine, Vice, Lensculture, Profifoto and Zeit, among others. She's a regular contributor for Bloomberg Newsweek. Since 2015 she's a featured Instagram photographer.

From 2012-2015 she worked as an adjunct lecturer for photography at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, where she also writes her doctoral thesis on Documentary Photography in Argentina.

After university she continued her education in workshops and courses with Antoine d'Agata, Claudi Carreras, Leo Liberman, Mariana Maggio, Christian Rodriguez, Nicolas Janowski and Carlos Bosch. She is currently working on her first self-published book and took workshops on photobooks with Gonzalo Golpe, Julieta Escardó as well as Veronica Fieiras of Chaco Books and Martin Bollati.

Sarah studied Spanish, Painting and Photography in Germany at the Universities of Köln and Wuppertal and graduated in 2011. In 2005 she travelled to Latin America for the first time which was a turning point in her life. She went back to the continent many times and started photographing social issues in 2006.