Sebastian Sardi was born in 1983 in Stockholm, Sweden. At the age of 22 he started taking classes in analog photography at the Peoples University in Stockholm. In 2009 he moved to Denmark to study photography at Fatamorgana the Danish school of art and photography. In 2011 he received a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Visual Studies. He published his first photobook “A Cirkusz” in 2012. 2019 his second book “Black Diamond” was published on Kehrer Verlag. Today Sebastian Sardi lives and works in Malmö and Copenhagen. Grants & Awards Audience Choice – Winner Best Picture Award Documentary Salon Arbetets Museum 2020 Chelsea International Photography Competitions, Jurors Pick, 2020 Encontros da Imagem – Discovery Awards 2019 Swedish Authors’ Fund Working Grant 2019 The Swedish Arts Grants Committee 2018 Langmanska Culture Fund 2018 Malmö City Cultural Grant 2016 Swedish Authors’ Fund Working Grant 2014 Helge Ax:son Johnson Fund 2014 Swedish Photographers Association Travel Grant 2012 BLF’s Big Photography Award 2011 Langmanska Culture Fund 2011 Helge Ax:son Johnson Fund 2011 Selected Exhibitions Arbetets museum (The Museum of Work) Documentary Salon, Norrköping, 2020-2021 Encontros da Imagem – Festival Internacional de Fotografia, Braga, Portugal, 2019 Studio Malmö, Malmö 2019 Galleri St Gertrud, Malmö, 2019 Lens Culture Emerging Talent Award, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, 2018 Fotografiska, Autumn Salon, Stockholm, 2017 Galleri Moment, Ängelholm, 2018 “OnePointFiveDegrees”, Prästasvängen, Island of Ven, 2018 Helsinki Photo Festival, Helsinki, 2018 “OnePointFiveDegrees”, Lund, 2018 “OnePointFiveDegrees”, Landskrona, 2018 Fotografiska, Autumn Salon, Stockholm, 2017 Västerbottens Museum, Umeå, 2017