A member of OSTKREUZ photographer’s agency since 2019, Sebastian Wells, born in Königs Wusterhausen in 1996, is based in Berlin, but is rarely at home.

Sebastian’s work centers on long-term documentary projects that examine the interplay between spaces, people, and systems of power. His photographic series about the Olympic Games, ARENA I (2018-2024), focuses on the staging of sports, taking a critical stance on the mass spectacle. This investigative lens also informs Utopia (2018-2019), a visual journey through the improvised structures of refugee camps, and La Rada di Augusta (2019-2020) , which documents daily life in the shadow of an oil refinery in Sicily. In Typ/Traube/Tross (2021-2023), he explores the persistence of nationalist ideologies using Flanders as a focal point, and in A Garden of Roots (2023), he investigates the personal and societal implications of commercial genealogy through the search for his unknown grandfather.

In 2022, he co-founded the English-language magazine Solomiya with Vsevolod Kazarin, contributing as a photographer, writer, and editor-at-large. From visual art to personal stories, the magazine features the work of emerging and established artists from Ukraine and beyond, reflecting on an environment shaped by ongoing imperial aggression.