Sibylle Fendt is a German photographer. She was born in 1974 in Karlsruhe, studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld (diploma 2002) and was a guest student of Wolfgang Tillmans at the Städel in Frankfurt from 2004 to 2006. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2002. She is a member of the Ostkreuz agency (since 2010) and has taught photography at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin since 2008.
Her book Gärtners Reise (Kehrer, 2012) won silver at the German Photobook Award 2013. Before the Time Comes (Kehrer Verlag, 2025, 140 pages) was made between 2024 and 2025. It follows people who spend their final days at home, with photographs and their spoken words. Its last section documents her own experience of losing her husband at home in May 2024. She photographed it with a digital medium-format camera.
