FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHER: Viviane Sassen

All photography by Viviane Sassen

CREDITS:

 (from left to right) 

1 & 2. 'It Ain't Easy Being Green' Dazed & Confused Oct 2009 

 3. Fashion feature

4. AFRICA, Parasomnia, Parasomnia

5. AFRICA, Ultra-Violet, Prosper

  6. Fashion feature

 7. Fashion feature

 8. 'In Bloom' for Dazed Digital July 2011, Styled by Katie Shillingford

9. 'It Ain't Easy Being Green' Dazed & Confused Oct 2009

10. Numero #115 Aug 2010

11. Fashion feautre

12. 'In Bloom' for Dazed Digital July 2011, Styled by Katie Shillingford

13. 'It Ain't Easy Being Green' Dazed & Confused Oct 2009

14. Fashion feature

15. Carven campaign A/W 2012

16. Carven campaign A/W 2012

17. AFRICA, Parasomnia, White Socks

18. Fashion feature

19. AFRICA, Parasomnia, ThreeMagi

20. Fashion feature, Another Man Mag

21.  AFRICA, Parasomnia, Kine

22. AFRICA, Die Son Sien Alles

23. Fashion feature

Viviane Sassen, a Dutch photographer born in 1972, spent three years of her early child hood living in Kenya. At the age of sixteen Sasson returned to Africa from the Netherlands, and has since continued to travel and work there. 

Her photography is very dream like and has a surreal quality to it. I love the way she plays with shadow, often obstructing the faces of her models. At times even her own shadow features in the picture but somehow she makes it look absolutley captivating and iconic. The series shot in Africa is called Parasomnia, which describes a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal, unnatural movements and behaviours. Models take on an otherworldy apperance, contorting their bodies in a trance like state.

 Sassen has worked for many leaders of the fashion industry including Miu Miu, Carven, Stella McCartney, Dazed & Confused and Numero magazine. Her fashion photography seamlessly travels the line between fashion and fine art. 

In and Out of Fashion is her latest book, covering seventeen years of her work in fashion. 

www.vivianesassen.com

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