Already in his early childhood, his mother encouraged her son's talent for drawing and encouraged him with words that seemed like affirmations: "You are an artist!". It's no wonder that Sebastian preferred to fill his math exercise book with caricatures rather than numbers at school and that to this day there is no alternative to art for him. After studying at the University of Applied Sciences - with a focus on photography with the well-known photographer and university lecturer Prof. Henrik Spohler - Valbuena deepened his photographic expertise while working in the renowned Ostkreuz photographers' agency. Valbuena, who originally saw himself as a caricaturist and illustrator, developed his special photographic talent through his training. If you had to describe this, it would be a special mixture of his eye for detail, his intuition and the ability to build trust between people, his objects and the camera. In both photography and illustration, people are Valbuena's favorite subject and his hometown of Berlin is a favorite subject.
