Sebastian Sardi was born in 1983 in Stockholm, Sweden. At the age of 22 he started taking classes in analog photography at the Peoples University in Stockholm. In 2009 he moved to Denmark to study photography at Fatamorgana, the Danish school of art and photography and in 2011 he received a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Visual Studies. He published his first photobook A Cirkusz, about travelling circuses, in 2012.
Sebastian began photographing mines in 2008 after reading an article on how mining related injuries and deaths are systematically covered up by many authorities. His book Black Diamond will be published by Kehrer verlag in January 2019. Sebastian Sardi lives and works in Malmö and Copenhagen.