About
Sabine Rovers (b. 1992, Ascot, UK) is a photographer, storyteller and explorer at heart. Her work is driven by a childish curiosity and a sensitivity to discover and experience the world around her. From a sincere, open and optimistic perspective, she looks for stories that help us slow down and (re-)connect to the basic, yet essential aspects of life that we tend to lose contact with in our modern society. Involvement and collaboration are key in her process, she prefers to make work with her subjects, instead of about them. Ultimately, Sabine hopes to share different perspectives and encourage new ways of seeing, connecting with and understanding the world we live in.
Sabine is based in The Hague and currently doing an apprenticeship at Docwerk as a documentary filmmaker for the NTR.
She has self-published two books and also gives photography workshops for Fotodok.
Education:
2022 Apprenticeship at Docwerk for NTR
2016 - 2020 BA Photography, Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague
2011 - 2015 BA Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
Contact
sabinerovers@gmail.com / +31 6 14164316
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Articles and interviews
In Frame - Interview Sabine Rovers - 2021
Corrosia Theater, Expo & Film - In gesprek met... Sabine Rovers - 2021
British Journal of Photography - Sabine Rovers’ unlikely friendship with a Dutch cowboy - 2020
Het AD - Cowboy Kees uit Kamerik vereeuwigd in fotoboek - 2020
Spijkers met Koppen op NPO Radio 2 - Cowboy Kees - 2020
Booooooom - “Cowboy Kees” by Photographer Sabine Rovers - 2020
De Volkskrant - Iedereen wil wel Cowboy Kees zijn - 2020
It’s Nice That - Meet the Dutch cowboy Kees in Sabine Rovers’ sincere, vulnerable and humorous photography - 2020
Pakhuis de Zwijger - Uncovering Creatives: Flip the switch - 2020
Balcony Podcast - Sabine Rovers - 2020
NRC - ‘De hele tijd doen wat je wilt, geweldig’ - 2019
FNV Magazine - Wat te doen, na je pensioen? - 2019
WIRED - Of course this is what homepathic healing machines look like - 2017
Exhibitions
2021 Cowboy Kees at Fotofestival Naarden, Naarden
2021 Cowboy Kees at the Team Franc Graduation Show at Corrosia, Almere
2020 Cowboy Kees at the Graduation Show of The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
2020 Cowboy Kees at Filmtheater De Uitkijk, Amsterdam
2020 Is dit kunst? at Theater De Vaillant, Den Haag
2019 Is dit kunst? at Het Atrium, Bibliotheek Leidschenveen & Het Koorenhuis, Den Haag
2019 Wat te doen, na je pensioen? at A Lab, Amsterdam
2018 Het Rosa Spier Huis at Het Rosa Spier Huis, Laren
2017 Dutch Cowboys at Cinetol, Amsterdam
2016 Dutch Cowboys at Roest, Amsterdam