Sascha Weidner (1 August 1974[1] in Georgsmarienhütte – 9 April 2015[1] in Norden[2]) was a German photographer and artist, who lived and worked in Belm and Berlin.

In 2013 he gained a scholarship from the Goethe Institute at the Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan,[5] and in 2014 at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing, China.

[10] For him the medium of photography was the artistic means of expression in order to weave together real worlds with the own internal images.

Over a decade of creating images, an ever-evolving picture library came together in which, as the photographer said, "everything is important: Cultural events, disasters, clichés, banalities, Political things"[11] Weidner composed his works from a large pool, which was composed of family photographs, own work and found or mass media and borrowed images from the history of art.

[13] Weidner's canon of images sprang from the way of life of young people and tells of the "perceptions, longings and visions of those generations who experienced their youth in the 80s, 90s and 2000s.

"[3] Therefore, Weidner's approach was very relevant for these periods and gave evidence both of an artistic consideration of actual and imaginary spaces.

The immediate, authentic and honest methodology Weidner applied to his work is anchored to the tradition of photographers such as Nan Goldin, Larry Clark or Juergen Teller.