Photographer Viviane Sassen has published a new book, Folio, which explores the origins of her distinctive visual language. The collection includes photographs from the mid-1990s, taken at the beginning of her career. Published by Note Note Éditions, the book continues her legacy of blending dreams and reality in her visual storytelling.
Sassen’s work in Folio captures her spontaneous and personal approach, focusing on her immediate surroundings. The collection reflects her early interest in staging, framing and perspective, techniques that reveal the strange and unsettling aspects of familiar scenes. These photographs, originally part of a handmade photo book in 1996, were taken while Sassen was studying for her Masters in Photography in Arnhem.
Last year, Sassen published another book, Self Portraits 1989-1999, which offered an introspective look at her early years as a photographer. Known for her surreal and innovative style, Sassen has had a major influence on fashion photography.
Don’t forget to explore Emanuele Coccia’s essay in Modern Alchemy (2021), which is interspersed here with Viviane Sassen’s intimate photographic collages.
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Courtesy of VIVIANE SASSEN and NOTE NOTE ÉDITIONS
Courtesy of VIVIANE SASSEN and NOTE NOTE ÉDITIONS
Courtesy of VIVIANE SASSEN and NOTE NOTE ÉDITIONS
