A member of the OSTKREUZ agency since 2019, Sebastian Wells, born in Königs Wusterhausen in 1996 and based in Berlin, continuously pushes boundaries through his art. His photographs, both personal projects and commissioned works, are featured in exhibitions, newspapers, and magazines.

At the age of 15, a series of injuries derailed his aspiration to become a professional runner. Forced to give up sports, Wells turned his attention to photography. Just five years later, as a student at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin, he captured a photo of Usain Bolt at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, earning him the title of Sports Photo of the Year by the German Sports Journalists' Association. However, it wasn't the athletes themselves that intrigued him, but rather the spaces surrounding them. His series of photographs from the Olympic Games ('Olympia', 2016-2024) focuses on the staging of sports, taking a critical stance on the mass spectacle. This same sensitivity for spaces and people is evident in his projects like 'Utopia' (2018-2019), in which he embarks on a visual journey through the make-shift world of refugee camps, and 'La Rada di Augusta' (2019-2020) documenting life near an oil refinery in Sicily.

In his more recent works, Sebastian delves into different approaches. He challenges nationalist ideologies using the example of Flanders in his series 'Type/Grape/Tross' (2021-2023) and, in searching for his unknown grandfather, explores the implications of genealogy companies in 'A Garden of Roots' (2023). In 2022, he co-founded the English-language magazine Solomiya with Ukrainian photographer Vsevolod Kazarin, a platform for both Ukrainian and international artists, produced in Kyiv and Berlin.