Sebastian Collett grew up in Ohio and France, and continues to live and work internationally. Following an early career as a pianist, he fell in love with photography at Bard College, while studying with Stephen Shore and Larry Fink. Upon graduating he traveled the world for fifteen years, then earned his MFA at the Hartford Art School. He has been awarded grants from Light Work and the Ohio Arts Council, the Cord Prize, and the Emerging Photography Award, as well as residencies at Headlands, La Napoule Foundation, the Terra Foundation, the Hemera Foundation, Salzburger Kunstverein, the Philadelphia Photo Art Center, the Tides Institute, the Hambidge Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lodz Art_Inkubator, and OMNE in Italy. His work has been featured in publications including the British Journal of Photography, Der Greif, Contact Sheet, the Source Photographic Review, GUP Magazine, PiK Magazine, Raw View Magazine, Romka Magazine, Fraction Magazine, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Feature Shoot, The Latent Image, Darwin Magazine, Phases Magazine, Vice Magazine, and CNN. Sebastian has self-published several books, and is included in the Mossless survey of American photography, "The United States, 2003-2013.” His photographs and books have been exhibited in venues including Aperture Gallery, Light Work, Kominek Gallery, Camden Image Gallery, 25CPW Gallery, Lodz Fotofestiwal, Museo Casa Giorgione, Convitto Palmieri, Villa Parco Bolasco, United Photo Industries, Project Basho, Duke University, Revolve Gallery, the Philadelphia Photo Art Center, the Houston Center for Photography, the Tides Museum, the Phoenix Museum of Art, the Woodmere Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Sebastian’s work can be found in private collections, and in the permanent collections of Light Work, the Woodmere Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.