Viviane sassen

Viviane Sassen • Parasomnia, Parasomnia animates these feelings of dislocation between home and away, night and day, life and dreams. The series comprises photographs taken in West and East Africa over the past two years, as well as a few taken in Europe, which frame her enigmatic and often haunting narratives.

Part of a longstanding tradition for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the collection of posters have been designed by 20 Japanese and international artists to promote the events, and form "cultural and artistic legacies".

Viviane Sassen • Of Mud and Lotus, Experimenting with collages and unique hand-coloured pieces, Sassen creates images in which abstraction and performance intertwine.

Raised in Kenya until the age of five, where her father ran a polio clinic, Viviane Sassen, who is of Dutch heritage, is often referred to as a one of the photographers who reinvigorated the realm of fashion photography through her distinctive visual...

In her first London exhibition, witness the long-time Dazed collaborator and photographer’s surreal brand of artistry

Viviane Sassen • Flamboya, Flamboya includes primarily portraits that Sassen made collaboratively with her subjects, some spontaneous and others performative. Some pages in the book have a smaller width, setting up interesting relationships between the images.

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Viviane Sassen, who is famous for her beautiful fine art photography from Africa, is also an accomplished fashion photographer with an exhibition up at the Huis Marseille Museum in Amsterdam.

*Very few photographers straddle art and fashion photography as successfully as Viviane Sassen. This year the Dutch photographer has already exhibited _In and Out of Fashion_, an experimental show at The Photographers’ Gallery and her hotly-tipped solo exhibition at the ICA, _Pikin Slee_. The latter consists of a series of photographs taken in a remote village in Suriname. It’s a long way, both geographically and figuratively, from the studio sets and powerful lights of her commercial work –…

Viviane Sassen is a photographer with two faces; both fashion and portraiture come under her gaze, but throughout both her commissioned and autonomous work one can see a wilful desire to subvert traditional style and […]