Viviane Sassen
Viviane Sassen first studied fashion design before turning to photography as a young woman, receiving an MFA in fine art from the Royal Academy in Arnhem. She is renowned and respected equally for her artistic career as for her innovative fashion images and she works across genres. She has her own highly recognisable style often utilising shadows, geometric shapes and the abstraction of bodies which she attributes to the influence of childhood memories of Africa. She has exhibited globally, published many books and has been recognised or awarded by Prix de Rome, ICP & Deutsche Börse. She lives and works in Amsterdam.
Clients:
- Acne
- Acqua for Life
- Adidas
- AnOther Magazine
- Beauty Papers
- Bottega Veneta
- Botter
- Carven
- Charlotte Chesnais
- COS
- Dazed
- Dior
- Double
- Dries Van Noten
- Eres
- Fantastic Man
- Frank Ocean
- Giorgio Armani
- Hennessy
- Hermès
- Jacquemus
- La Bouche Rouge
- Lanvin
- Le Monde M
- L'Oréal
- Louis Vuitton
- Marc Jacobs
- Max Mara
- Missoni
- Miu Miu
- Narciso Rodriguez
- Numéro
- Paul Smith
- Perrier-Jouët
- Phillip Lim
- POP Magazine
- Purple
- Re-Edition
- Shiseido
- Stella McCartney
- T Magazine
- Toga
- Wall Street Journal
- Vogue
- Ulla Johnson
Highlights
Luncheon
AnOther
Hunter Schafer
POP
M Le Monde
AnOther
Dazed
Vogue
Exhibitions and Awards
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2023
PHOSPHOR: Art & Fashion: 1990- 2023, MEPParis, France
- 2022
Modern Alchemy, Book Presentation, Les Rencontres D’Arles, Arles, France
- 2020
Venus & Mercury, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2018
Hot Mirror, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
- 2017
Umbra, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2022
NL Imagined, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, Beijing, China
- 2022
Queerness in Photography / Orlando, C/O Berlin, Germany
- 2019
Versailles — Visible/Invisible, Grand Trianon, Chateau de Versailles, France
- 2016
‘In These Shadows’, Casemore Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- 2016
Exchange, Gallerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Awards & Prizes
- 2018
Gold and Silver Lion for Adidas x Pharrell Williams, Campaign, Cannes Lions, France
- 2015
David Octavius Hill Award, Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, Germany
- 2015
Honorary Fellowship Award, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK
- 2015
Gold Medal — Deutsche Fotobuchpreis - Best Photobook 2016 (for Umbra) Stuttgart, Germany
- 2015
Deutsche Börse Prize - Nominee, London, UK
Publications
More Than Our Bellies
We Folk
2019Hot Mirror
Prestel
2018Roxane II
Oodee
2017Of Mud and Lotus
artbeat publishers
2017Pikin Slee
Prestel
2014Umbra
Oodee
2014Parasomnia
Prestel
2011