The German photographer/artist Sabine Plamper (born 1972 in Potsdam, Germany) has been living and working in Amsterdam for the past 6 years. Since 1999 Plamper has been working as a freelance photographer. Her work includes art projects as well as commissioned work for magazines, firms and private collections. Her artwork ‘Figures of Light & Dark’ is frequently exhibited at exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad. Photographs of this series were purchased by the picture libraries ‘Kunstcentrum Zaanstad’ (2001), ‘CBK Zuidoost’ (2003 and 2004), ‘SBK Centrum Amsterdam’ (2004) and can be found in private collections (since 1997).
Since 2000 Plamper worked on several portrait series. In 2001 the International Foster Care Organisation (IFCO) commissioned Plamper to produce the photo book ‘Watch Us! -Youth in Foster Families’, showing black & white portraits of young people.
In 2003 Plamper photographed the colour series ‘Female armpits’ which was commissioned by the foundations ‘Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst’ and ‘Stichting Josine de Bruyn Kops’.
In 2001 Plamper produced the colour series ‘Uniforms Amsterdam’ and in 2004 she photographed ‘Uniforms Berlin’, a project commissioned by the German weekly paper ‘DIE ZEIT’. The uniform series shows double portraits of people in working and private clothes. In the next years Plamper plans to continue the uniform series in different countries.
Furthermore, she is currently working on the new photo project called ‘Portraits of the Human Back’ dealing with the common problem of backache and posture.