Sebastian Liste is based in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
He was born in Spain in 1985, and raised in Barcelona. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Sociology at the UNED, and a Masters in the Arts in Photojournalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Sebastian won the 2010 Ian Parry Scholarship for his long term project ‘Urban Quilombo’ about the extreme living conditions that dozens of families face, who have set up home in an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. At the same time he was given a place on the Emerging Talent part of the Reportage by Getty Images web site, and since then has gone on to become a Featured Contributor with us in October 2011.
Sebastian’s extensive documentary work has focused on the lives of diverse communities around the world. By 2009, when Sebastian finished his undergraduate studies, he had visited over 20 countries, as Brazil, Laos, Ethiopia, Mexico, Mali, Cuba, Nepal, among others.
Currently, he is focusing on two main projects in Latin America and the Mediterranean Sea; places where he grew up and which he knows well. On these long-term projects Sebastian plans to explore the profound cultural and identity changes that are occurring in our contemporary world. His personal and intimate stories fluctuate between documenting daily life in struggling communities to that of his own family.
Sebastian was chosen for the 2011 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass.
His work has been internationally recognized by POYi, NPPA, Sony WPO, Lucie Awards, Paris PX3, Anthropographia, Daylight/CDS Awards, CENTER Awards, Fotovisura Spotlight Grant, Reinassance Prize, the Terry O´Neill Award, among others. In 2010 he was named the young editorial photographer of this year at IPA/Lucie Awards, in addition to wins in the Non-Professional categories Editorial, Editorial Feature, and Editorial Photo Essay. He was also a finalist for their 2010 Discovery of the Year.
His photographs have appeared in The Sunday Times Magazine, Photo District News, British Journal of Photography, FotoVisura, Burn Magazine and other publications.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions all around the world at the Getty Images Gallery, Host Gallery, Hotshoe Gallery and Mall Galleries in London, Espace Dupon and Speos Gallery in Paris, Gallery 291 in San Francisco, VII Dumbo, Splashlight Studio Soho, PowerHouse Arena, New Atlantic Gallery in New York, Maison des Arts du Grutli in Geneva, as well as in various galleries in Spain.
His work has also been shown in international photo festival as Visa pour L’Image in Perpignan, France; Noorderlicht Photo Festival in Groningen, Netherlands and the Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia.
Sebastian Liste works as a freelancer and can be made available for assignments via our offices.
