Sabine Weiss was born on July 23, 1924, in Saint-Gingolph, Switzerland. Introduced to photography at a young age, she learned the craft at the Boissonnas studio in Geneva.

After obtaining her diploma, she opened her own studio in 1945 before permanently relocating to Paris in 1946. There, she became the assistant to fashion photographer Willy Maywald.

In 1950, she married American painter Hugh Weiss and began working as an independent photographer.

In 1952, Robert Doisneau invited her to join the Rapho agency, which also represented the work of Willy Ronis and Edouard Boubat. She frequented artistic circles and captured the faces of numerous prominent figures such as Stravinsky, Casals, Britten, Dubuffet, Léger, Giacometti, and Rauschenberg.

In 1955, three of her photographs were selected by Edward Steichen for the iconic exhibition "The Family of Man" at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

She undertook numerous commissioned projects, working in fashion, reportage, and advertising. This allowed her to pursue more personal research, capturing the human condition and aligning her work with the humanist photography movement.

Her images have been exhibited worldwide and can be found in prestigious collections, including the MoMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto.

Sabine Weiss was awarded the title of Officer of Arts and Letters in 1999 and received the Chevalier insignia in the Order of Merit in 2010.

Exhibited at Galería Cadaqués