Viviane Sassen
Photographer/Director
Fashion . Motion
Born in Amsterdam but spending the first three years of her childhood in Africa. Viviane first studied fashion design before turning to photography an...
Born in Amsterdam but spending the first three years of her childhood in Africa. Viviane first studied fashion design before turning to photography an...
VIViANE SASSEN
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Viviane Sassen was born in Amsterdam but spent the first three years of her childhood in Africa. She first studied fashion design before turning to photography and eventually receiving a MFA in fine art from the Royal Academy in Arnhem.
AGAIS POP
ANOTHER MAN
DAZED
DRIES VAN NOTEN
Viviane is renowned and respected equally for her fine art as for her innovative fashion images. She lives in Amsterdam.
POP
ANOTHER
POP
"BODY PERFORMANCE" EXHIBITION, MUSEUM FUR FOTOGRAFIE, BERLIN
She has her own unmistakable style often using shadow, geometric shapes and the abstraction of bodies, which she attributes to the influence of childhood memories of Africa.
DRIES VAN NOTEN
POP x HERMES
VOGUE CHINA
VOGUE CHINA
WSJ.
Viviane contributes regularly to titles such as Wall Street Journal, T Magazine, Le Monde M, POP, Vogue Italia, Vogue China, Dazed and Confused and AnOther magazine.
POP
DRIES VAN NOTEN
LA BOUCHE ROUGE
ARMANI
VOGUE ITALIA
ANOTHER
She has collaborated on many global campaigns including Louis Vuitton, Armani, L’Oréal, Shiseido, Narciso Rodriguez, Stella McCartney, Hermès, Bottega Veneta, Phillip Lim and Missoni.
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ
DAZED
VOGUE ITALIA x DIOR
POP
NUMERO
LOUIS VUITTON MEN
She is of the generation of artists that alternate personal, editorial, and commercial work and embrace an interdisciplinary attitude. She says, "You should always be able to judge a photograph on different grounds, on political, social, emotional, but also on personal grounds."
ANOTHER
VOGUE CHINA
TOGA SURFACING
T MAGAZINE
ARMANI
She has been exhibited globally, published many books of her work and won numerous awards including The Prix de Rome in 2007 and showing at the Venice Biennale in 2013.
HELIOTROPE, PUBLISHED BY TBW IN 2018
HOT MIRROR, PUBLISHED BY PRESTEL IN 2018
OF MUD AND LOTUS, PUBLISHED BY ARTBEAT IN 2017
ROXANE II, PUBLISHED IN 2017
Most recently she has shown at the Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, 2020 and the Grand & Petit Trianon in Versaille, 2019 with her new body of work, “Venus and Mercury”.
VENUS AND MERCURY
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