“Getting into photography happened more or less by coincidence,” Sabine Scheer admits – something you don’t hear much in this field. She planned on studying graphic design in college, but didn’t have a presentable portfolio yet, so she entered a two-year program to that end – one that taught her photography. She worked in a studio doing architecture and still life.

And so, she unwittingly became a photographer – one who probably never would’ve imagined she’d be smuggling a NYC roach in her luggage back to Germany to make it the star of a thematic portrait series. But life’s strange sometimes.

In 1996 she began studying photo design at the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund, Germany, and worked in New York with Hans Neleman and John Curry.