Artist Bio

Self-taught, Berlin-based photographer and artist with a strong focus on Subjective & Conceptual Documentary, Narrative & Portrait Photography as well as experimental editing techniques, digital & analogue. 

Sina’s work is driven by a deep desire to see, feel and understand the social dynamics of urban realities. Through her lens, the German artist with Colombian roots is a perceptive and gentle observer – unveiling depth and meaning in human interaction.
It’s not just individual moments in time, that spark her interest but the people, each on their own journey, and in reflection: to allow the viewer's story to shape the gaps, to open up a realm of interpretation in volatile proximity.

Sina studied Communications & Film (M.A.), Cultural Philosophy and Psychology at Leipzig University. Artistically, she pushed her self taught practice by successfully graduating an intensive 1-year program at Ostkreuz School of Photography (Berlin) as well as from several courses at ICP (NYC). Most notably, she completed a workshop by and received mentoring from Antoine D’Agata (Magnum) as well as Michael Grieve (VU’) and Dylan Hausthor (VOID), and was named a FRESH EYES Talent 2023 by GUP Magazine. Sina has lived in Spain, and New York City, and is currently based in Berlin. Her work was exhibited and published internationally.

“Her] images evoke passion, eroticism, play, chaos, calm, anxiety about the future, being in the present… and much more [with an atmosphere that is] sultry, enigmatic, exciting.

With a vivid imagination and social concerns [she] searches for what lies under the surface“*. Her photography shows a „restless spirit“*, visualizing „abstract notions related to identity and human relationships.

With a “strong feeling of people, and how to capture energy [she is] creating work that goes beyond the ordinary, […] trying to suspend the moment into something else.”* Her images “address very different subject matter yet they share a similar delicate quality […]. It’s hard to describe but [her] images feel like they are so much about the atmosphere and feeling of the moment unfolding; as if [she is] not only communicating what [she] saw, but also how those moments made [her] feel.”
— *LensCulture

*Main Focus*

  • Subjective & conceptual Documentary, Narrative & Portrait Photography 

  • Experimental editing techniques, digital & analogue

*Memberships/Programs*

(2022-2024)

  • ICP - International Center of Photography, NYC (US), course work & class of Dylan Hausthor - „Documentary Myth: Telling True Stories of Fake Things“

  • Mentoring & workshop Antoine D’Agata (Magnum), ArtFotoMode, Berlin (DE)

  • 2023 FRESH EYES Talent 2023 GUP Magazine (NL)

  • ZONE magazine mentoring program (IT)

  • 1-year program at Ostkreuz School of Photography, class of Michael Grieve (Agence VU’), Berlin (DE)

  • Core member of FotografieBerlin Collective (non-profit) (DE)

*Exposure*

  • 2024 Exhibition “You're Innocent in Your Dreams”, ZERO space Art Gallery, Tokyo (JP)

  • 2024 Presentation Portfolio, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Salle des Fêtes, Arles (FR)

  • 2024 Publication “Witness”, Trigger - FOMU magazine of the Museum of Photography Antwerp (BG)

  • 2024 Exhibition “Urban Silence - Resonance”, 48h Neukölln art festival, FotografieBerlin e.V. (DE)

  • 2024 Video installation, Show&Tell “Excess“, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin (DE)

  • 2024 Publication “Letting Go“, See:zeen, NYC (US) / Berlin (DE)

  • 2023 Exhibition “Touching Transcendence“, UltraSuperNewGallery, Tokyo (JP)

  • 2023 Publication in DER GREIF magazine, “(make) belief“ (Guest Room), curated by Daniel Boetker-Smith & Tanvi Mishra

  • 2023 Exhibition “FRESH EYES“, Haute Photographie, Amsterdam (NL)

  • 2023 Publication „Letting Go“ zrfdbck Magazine, No 005 2023, Tokyo (JP)

  • 2023 Exhibition “Signs of Impermanence“, Jinny Street Gallery, Tokyo (JP)

  • 2023 Exhibition “Playground“, 48h Neukölln art festival, Berlin (DE)

  • 2022 Exhibition “Aporia“, Bethanien, Berlin (DE)

  • 2022 Publication in DER GREIF magazine, “CHARACTERS OF RESONANCE“ (Guest Room), curated by Diandra Donecker 

  • 2022 Exhibition “I’m going to eat my head off“ // Saṃsāra“, 48H Neukölln art festival, Redah Gallery, Berlin (DE)

  • 2022 Selected Photographer International Urban Photo Awards - Singles & Portfolio, Trieste (IT)

  • 2021 Exhibition “Come fly with me“, 48H Neukölln Berlin art festival, Kunstmatrix, Berlin (DE)

  • 2021 Exhibition “Final Bloom Capsule“, FK-Kollektiv (Redah Gallery), Berlin (DE)

  • 2021 Selected Photographer International Urban Photo Awards - Singles & Portfolio, Trieste (IT)

  • 2020 Exhibition “Neukölln“, 48H Neukölln Berlin art festival, Kunstmatrix, Berlin (DE)

  • 2020 Exhibition “Final Bloom Capsule“, FK-Kollektiv (Redah Gallery), Berlin (DE)

  • 2020 Selected Photographer International Urban Photo Awards - Portfolio, Trieste (IT)