Photographer / Berlin
Social reportage, portrait
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Life
Born in 1975 in Halle/Saale. After school, he traveled the globe for over a year. He then completed vocational training as a social worker and worked in various youth welfare projects in Berlin. Alongside this, his passion for capturing stories, especially social ones, with his camera grew. He acquired the necessary technical skills over time as a self-taught individual. Starting in 2002, he worked as a freelance photographer for the German Press Agency (dpa) and has been working for Zeitenspiegel agency since the end of 2008.
Awards: including the German Social Prize, Children's Aid Media Prize, and Constructive World Award
Projects
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Reportage, Sascha MontagThe Island of Widows
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Patrick Witte
Published in „NZZ am Sonntag Magazin“ 08/10/2025Lake Victoria in East Africa is a source of livelihood for thirty million people. Its perch is sought after worldwide, yet the world's second-largest freshwater lake is considered more dangerous than any other. A visit to Lolwe Island in Uganda.
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Jan Rübel, Reportage, Sascha MontagNow I am speaking
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Jan Rübel
Published in „Publik-Forum“, 09/15/2025Those who don't have a roof over their heads have no lobby. But now homeless people want to represent themselves. However, that is easier said than done.
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Kristin Kasten, Reportage, Sascha MontagA completely normal job
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Kristin Kasten
Published in „Brand Eins,“ Issue 06/2025The pharmaceutical company Berlin-Chemie has always employed people with disabilities. And is thus a shining example.
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Jan Rübel, Reportage, Sascha MontagHis Second Life
Photographer Sascha Montag and author Jan Rübel
Published in „Stern“, May 15, 2025As a toddler, Tristan Meier suffered abuse and violence. Authorities placed him in a foster home. No one paid attention to him; no one saw his injuries. Until a couple took him in.
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Isabel Stettin, Reportage, Sascha MontagOcean sisters
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Terra Mater“ 01/2025As friends and allies, they compete for the biggest catches of seafood: Japan's freedivers, the Ama, uphold a proud tradition that makes them independent and self-assured. Now, they fight for themselves, nature, and their future—with every breath.
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Jan Rübel, Reportage, Sascha MontagThe certainty of the street
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Jan Rübel
Published in „Stern“, 11.21.2024Poverty in Germany has been increasing for years. Politicians have no real plan. But in East Frisia, an anti-poverty commissioner is now fighting against frustration.
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Jan Rübel, Reportage, Sascha MontagIngo
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Jan Rübel
Published in „FR7“, magazine of the „Frankfurter Rundschau“, April 13, 2024First, the GDR teaches him to fear. In 1984, political prisoner Ingo Bauer, 22, escaped to the West – beginning decades filled with burglaries and alcohol, more prison, and finally homelessness. Then, he was offered a solidarity basic income and a tiny house. By someone who left to learn freedom. And perished in it.
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Bernd Hauser, Reportage, Sascha MontagToo young for Buddha
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Bernd Hauser
Published in „taz“, January 13, 2024Every minute, 23 underage girls get married somewhere in the world: child marriage is a global problem. A visit with young women like Migma Diki Sherpa in Nepal, where these marriages are particularly common.
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Kristin Kasten, Reportage, Sascha MontagScrews for life
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Kristin Kasten
Appeared in „Welt der Frauen“, 10.2023In the automotive repair shops of Burkina Faso, almost exclusively men work. A training center wants to change that.
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Kristin Kasten, Reportage, Sascha MontagWhat Somaila dreams of
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Kristin Kasten
Published in „FR7,“ the magazine of the „Frankfurter Rundschau,“ July 23, 2023What is childhood worth? In the mines of Burkina Faso, even the youngest often have to help with the arduous work. Local initiatives want to save them - with a compelling argument.
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Kristin Kasten, Reportage, Sascha MontagEdge case
Author Kristin Kasten, photographer Sascha Montag
Published in „Stern“ on October 5, 2023The number of refugees is also rising in Saxony. Ruthless smugglers are bringing them across the Polish border. An undercover unit of the Federal Police wants to stop them.
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Isabel Stettin, Reportage, Sascha MontagMary full of grace
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Mein Kind“ 07/2023The Calderari are traditional Roma with strong rites and family ties. They are modern nomads – and deeply rooted.