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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Markus Wanzeck, Reportage, Sascha MontagFischer's Heat
Author Markus Wanzeck, photographer Sascha Montag
Published in „Greenpeace Magazine“ 04.23Global warming is particularly affecting ecosystems that have received little attention so far: lakes. Inland fishermen are already noticing profound changes. Researchers are trying to understand what is happening beneath the surface of the water.
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Bernd Hauser, Reportage, Sascha MontagA disease, as if invented by the devil
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Bernd Hauser
Published in „Focus“, 02/2023Worldwide, 120 million people carry a parasite that causes grotesque swelling. You don't die from elephantiasis, but it exacerbates poverty. In Nepal, a microbiologist is working to eradicate the pathogen.
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Jan Rübel, Reportage, Sascha MontagChildren of Escape
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Jan Rübel
Erschienen in „Welt am Sonntag“, Nr. 9/2023In München erforschen und behandeln Wissenschaftler erstmals systematisch die Traumata, die Krieg und Verlust Kleinkindern zufügen. Unser Reporter hat Familien und Forscher des Projekts drei Jahre lang begleitet.
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Bernd Hauser, Reportage, Sascha MontagA childhood as a nun
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Bernd Hauser
Published in „My Child,“ 12/2022Pema is twelve years old and hasn't seen her mother in seven years: she lives in a school for Buddhist nuns in Nepal.
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Isabel Stettin, Reportage, Sascha MontagFood for a long life
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Geo Wissen“ 04/2022On the Japanese island group of Okinawa, a surprisingly large number of people live to be over 100 years old. Researchers are convinced that the healthy diet of the islanders also plays an outstanding role in their life expectancy.
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Isabel Stettin, Reportage, Sascha MontagInto the enchanted forest
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Geo – Wohlleben's World“ 09/2021Enchanted primeval forests, untouched nature, villages seemingly frozen in time: a journey through the Romanian Carpathians leads to one of the last wild corners of Europe.
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Isabel Stettin, Reportage, Sascha MontagNagi - City of Children
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Wienerin“ 02/2020Good plan. Japan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. The population is shrinking dramatically. A small town is fighting back with its own unique methods.
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Markus Wanzeck, Reportage, Sascha MontagNaked lecture with Poseidon
Author Markus Wanzeck, photographer Sascha Montag
Published on „Spiegel Online“ on October 29, 2019When the GDR imploded, the last government decree in 1990 placed almost five percent of the state's territory under nature protection – a surprise coup by environmental activists led by Michael Succow. Since then, they have achieved a great deal, worldwide.
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Reportage, Rike Uhlenkamp, Sascha MontagNobody stayed longer than nine months
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Rike Uhlenkamp
Published in „Wienerin,“ 12/2019Many homeless people die as they lived: alone and without a roof over their heads. Fearing rigid rules and prejudices, they shy away from going to hospitals and nursing homes. In Graz, Europe's only hospice specifically for the homeless, they can live as they wish until the very end.
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Jan Rübel, Reportage, Sascha MontagA Wounded Life
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Jan Rübel
Published in „Stern“, 4/2019As a toddler, Tom was severely mistreated and abused. Eleven years ago, stern visited him with his foster family and met a deeply traumatized boy. Tom is now 23. How is he doing today?
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Reportage, Sascha MontagThe Mulewomen of Melilla
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Diana Laarz
Published in „Enorm“, 07/2015A disgrace on Europe's ramparts, shunned by all: Tons of cheap goods make their way from the Spanish exclave of Melilla to Africa daily, declared as «hand luggage.» A million-dollar business at the expense of women who work as human pack mules.
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Jan Rübel, Reportage, Sascha MontagGood heavens
Photographer Sascha Montag and author Jan Rübel
Erschienen in „Eltern Family“ und „WamS-Titelthema“, 03/2015From year to year, the German state takes more children from their families to protect them from beatings and neglect. Often, the crisis intervention workers from the authorities stand in strangers' apartments at night and must decide within minutes whether intervention is necessary.