Sabine Stein studied Photography at the FH Dortmund, Germany, graduated in 2012. Her international work as a photographer and teacher, mainly in the field of documentary photography, is based on the topic of refugees/identity and human/woman rights. With her diploma thesis "Beirut. Silent spaces" she was a finalist of the CNN Journalist Award 2013. In 2014, she was part of the group to produce "CAFT ACT. Philippine design in transition" with a scholarship of the DAAD and in cooperation with the AFOS Foundation at the Visayas, Philippines. The project, which contained design products, films and photographs, was shown in the frame of a moving exhibition in Germany. In 2016 and 2017 she worked in Greece and also in Palestine. According to the economic crisis in Greece, she produced “Good morning, Patras”. In Palestine, she produced the extensive series “69 years and 225 days” which is supposed to reflect the human, ecologic and politic situation trough photographs combined with several interviews of Palestinians which she met all over the country. She held various workshops in the fields of photography for (young) adults at the Freedom Theater, Jenin, Palestine.

She works as a press photographer of FUNKE MEDIA since 2023.

As a mother of two children, she is aware of the struggle of female photographers combining motherhood with their international freelance work.

Since 2024, she is a member of the brand-new build-up female curator-team of the German Kunstverein Emmerich and also of a Turkish NGO based in the Black Sea region, to focus on setting up European-wide projects working on women and human rights mainly with the tool of art.