The book offers a rare insight into photographer Viviane Sassen's earliest experiments with the form: starting as a teenager making “fashion pictures with her friends,” self-portraiture became an important tool for her to explore her sexuality and carve out her own identity. These experiments, as well as her experience as a model, fuelled her desire to be behind the camera and define a fresh perspective that challenged the strictures of the male gaze.
Viviane Sassen (born 1972) is a Dutch artist living in Amsterdam.
She studied fashion design and photography.
Her work oscillates between personal and commercial work.
Sassen won several awards like the Dutch Prix de Rome (2007), the Infinity Award from International Center of Photography.
She was included in the 2011 New Photography exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.
She was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and won several awards for her numerous publications.
Soft cover, thread stitching,
20.5x26cm
58 pages, numerous B/W and color photographs
first edition
Kominek Books 2023