Sabine

Albers was born in 1972 and raised in the Netherlands. Intrigued by the magic of her mother’s family photo album filled with a handful of glass plate photographs taken in Indonesia, Sabine developed a passion for photography at an early age. At 16 she was given a Minolta x-300 and has been taking pictures ever since.

After receiving a Bachelor of Photography at the University of Fine Arts in Utrecht in 1996, Sabine established her photographic career in the Netherlands until her drive to capture social issues led her to travel in 1993. She fell in love with Australia and has made it her base since December 2003.

In Australia Sabine continues documenting social issues through film and photography. These include projects such as: ‘I am’ a portrait book of handicapped children; ‘Vanishing Sugarcane Farming in Queensland’; ‘Tsunami, Thailand one Year On’ capturing the first anniversary of the Tsunami in Thailand and ‘Australia’s Nurses’ a portrait project capturing Australian Army nurses who served during the Vietnam War’.

The early work of photographers such as Lewis W. Hine, Walker Evans and Dorothy Lange has shaped Sabine’s eye for social documentaries. The way these images were used during the American depression in 1935 providing worldwide education, has set a benchmark for her own documentary work.