Viviane Sassen est née à Amsterdam en 1972, elle vit et travaille à Amsterdam.
Actualité Les nominés du prix Deutsche Börse 2015 sont... Actualité Journée de la Femme et photographie : Viviane Sassen # 2 Actualité EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE #89 Actualité Prix BMW - Paris Photo ANNONCE DES 20 FINALISTES 2009 Livre Sol & Luna Viviane Sassen Livre VIVIANE SASSEN FLAMBOYA Festival Lagos Photo Festival 2014 Festival Scotiabank Contact Festival 2011 - Figure and Ground Exposition Exhibition : « UMBRA » by Viviane Sassen Exposition Exposition : VIVIANE SASSEN | UMBRA Exposition ARLES 2015 : la MEP prêche pour ses chapelles Exposition Exhibition : « Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 » at The Photograper's Gallery Exposition Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee Exposition Exposition : Viviane Sassen Exposition New exhibition at The Aperture Gallery Exposition Exhibition of Viviane Sassen : Analemma : Fashion Photography 1992 - 2012 Exposition RIJKSMUSEUM : MODERN TIMES. Photographie du 20ème siècle Exposition La galerie du 5e, espace culturel des Galeries Lafayette de Marseille Saint-Ferréol présente « Temps de pose » Exposition Stevenson Gallery presents Viviane Sassen «Pikin Slee» Exposition Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie 2013 présentent leurs expositions « Arles in Black » Exposition Viviane Sassen presents « In and Out of Fashion » at the Museum Huis Marseille Exposition Atelier de Visu expose La Collection du Château d'Eau Exposition Young people Exhibition at the Fotomuseum Winerthur Exposition Flamboya, Viviane Sassen Modifier l'image
Le prix Deutsche Börse 2015 récompense un photographe vivant pour sa contribution à l'art photographique en Europe. Il est doté d'une bourse de 30 000 livres sterling.
Le prix Deutsche Börse est de retour. Les nominés pour cette nouvelle année sont : Mikhael Subotzky pour Ponte City, Zanele Muholi pour Faces and Phases 2006 – 2014, Viviane Sassen pour Umbra et Nikolai Bakharev. L'Afrique a une place prépondérante pour cette nouvelle édition puisque Mikhael Subotzky et Zanele Muholi viennent d'Afrique du Sud. Viviane Sassen, d'origine hollandaise a été élevée au Kenya et travaille sur le continent.
Les travaux des photographes seront exposés à la Photographers’ Gallery de ...
Viviane Sassen réside et travaille là ou elle est née en 1972, dans la ville d'Amsterdam.
Bien connue pour ces photographies de mode, il est primordial de souligner l'originalité de sa démarche dans ce domaine, ainsi que ses capacités polyvalentes et remarquables dans bien d'autres.
Après deux années d'études dans une école de Mode, la jeune femme en vient rapidement à la conclusion qu'il lui en faut plus. Milieu considéré comme exigeant, parfois morne et ennuyeux, le monde de la Mode sera désormais appréhendé par Viviane Sassen de manière différente : celle-ci fera de son admiration pour les icônes de la photographie de Mode (comme Guy Bourdin ou Helmut ...
European Photography 89 features fresh work by contemporary artists as diverse as Viviane Sassen, André Giesemann, Daniel Schulz, Eric Tabuchi, Satomi Shirai, Anna Skladmann, Magda Biernat, Almagul Menlibayeva, Daniel Traub, Hans-Christian Schink, and Vincent Fournier.
Also in this issue:
Boris von Brauchitsch: Google, the New Photo Machine
With Google Earth and Google Street View the visual tsunami has taken on a whole new dimension: thanks to the search engine with its images of our planet, be it from the angle of a satellite or a passer-by, it is possible to view every house in every street in every city – without anyone having selected or even looked at the respective images.
Christoph Schaden: Welcome to the Situation Room
An image. We see thirteen people gathered around a ...
Le jury du Prix BMW – Paris Photo 2009 a sélectionné 20 artistes finalistes pour sa sixième édition. Le thème de ce prix, réservé aux artistes présentés par les galeries participantes à Paris Photo, est :
« Quand avez-vous vécu pour la dernière fois une expérience unique ? ». Ce thème met en mots la philosophie de la nouvelle BMW Série 5 Gran Turismo : une nouvelle expérience humaine, une nouvelle vision du monde.
Les 20 finalistes sélectionnés parmi 55 candidatures retenues seront exposés à Paris Photo du 19 au 22 novembre. L’artiste lauréat recevra le Prix doté de 12 000 euros en ouverture du Salon le 18 novembre prochain.
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The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to announce the recipients of the 27th Annual Infinity Awards. Recognized around the world, the awards are widely respected as the leading honor for excellence in the field of photography. «Infinity Award recipients are dedicated to exploring photography’s cultural influence and how it opens new opportunities for communication and personal expression,” states ICP Ehrenkranz Director Willis E. Hartshorn. “This year’s recipients capture the importance of how photography shapes our sense of history in an ever more image-conscious world. We are pleased to recognize their achievements.»
See the video from the 2011 Infinity Awards : http://vimeo.com/24579422
Each year ICP acknowledges the work of those whose powerful ima...
Viviane Sassen (b. 1972, Dutch) has completed a specially made and well-built series of imagery with androgyny and beauty as the key principle.
In 2009 Libraryman initiated this project for Swedish clothing brand Our Legacy. Luckily the project was finalized as a lovely little hardbound book - but unfortunately it rapidly got sold out. So by internal desire and a massive public request, Libraryman have now published a revised 2nd Edition.
32 pages, 22.5 x 30.5 cm, Cloth bound, hardback, b/w offset
2nd Edition comes with a folded poster, 29 x 42.5 cm
Editor & Designer: Tony Cederteg
Publication date: May 2013
Publisher: Libraryman
Printed in Stockholm, Sweden by Wassberg + Skotte
ISBN: 978-91-86269-27-2 (Second Edition, 2013)
Price: $72
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The flamboya is a short tropical tree with beautiful, bright colourful flowers. Viviane Sassen has used these colours and the tactile plumpness of the flamboya to represent in a title and in a book, her African pictures. Viviane is a Dutch fashion photographer who has always tried to alternate assignments and personal research. Flamboyais her first book. It tells us of journeysin Africa, of a yearning and exciting exoticism, but, above all, of a curious, intelligent, precise attention to shapes and colours that life lays in front of the photographer’s eye.
This volume accompanies the exhibition with the same title that will be shown in 2009 at the Maison Europénne de la Photographie in Paris and at Forma - International Centre of Photography in Milan.
Born in 1972 in Amsterdam, Viviane Sassen has...
The LagosPhoto Foundation presents the fifth edition of the annual LagosPhoto Festival in Lagos, Nigeria, October 25-November 26, 2014, entitled « Staging Reality, Documenting Fiction »
Launched in 2010, LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival of photography in Nigeria. In a month long programme, events include exhibitions, workshops, artist presentations, discussions, screenings, and large scale outdoor installations in congested public spaces in Lagos. LagosPhoto aims to provide a platform for the development and education of contemporary photography in Africa by establishing mentorships and cross- cultural collaborations with local and international artists. LagosPhoto presents photography as it is embodied in the exploration of historical and contemporary issues, the promotion
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Tout au long du mois de Mai à Toronto au Canada, le Festival Scotiabank CONTACT présente dans 200 lieux de la ville des expositions, installations publiques, projections, films, conférences et stages à environ un million de visiteurs. Nous vous présentons ci-dessous le contenu de ce festival, qui présente le meilleur de la photographie contemporaine et dont l'édition 2011 est intitulée Figure & Ground, explorant «les tensions mouvantes entre l'humanité et la nature». Pour en savoir plus : http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/
«Focusing on our relationship to the environment, CONTACT 2011: Figure & Ground looks at how photographic images alter perception, inform knowledge, and uncover meaning. From classical portraits of t...
Press release - UMBRA is an exhibition consisting of photography and multimedia works by acclaimed fashion photographer Viviane Sassen (Dutch, b. 1972). The work in UMBRA, which means shadow in Latin, emphasizes the play of light and shadow that is characteristic of her work. The artist is also known for her alluring color photographs in which form and content balance on the edge of abstraction.
©Viviane Sassen Nadir
UMBRA is conceived as an installation piece with eight different chapters, each with a distinctive character. Certain works presented in the exhibition refer to abstract painterly traditions that include artists like Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, or Mark Rothko. In other ways the installation refers to literary, scientific, and philosophical traditions, from Plato and Carl Jung to the you...
Du 11 septembre au 2 novembre, le Nederlands Fotomuseum à Rotterdam et l’ambassade des Pays- Bas en France présentent dans l’Atelier Néerlandais, UMBRA, un remarquable projet photo de Viviane Sassen. L’artiste est actuellement l’une des photographes les plus en vue au niveau international. En 2014, elle a réalisé spécialement pour le Nederlands Fotomuseum cette nouvelle série de photos autour des jeux d’ombre (en latin umbra), un thème caractéristique de son œuvre.
Viviane Sassen est une photographe de mode et une photographe autonome qui a acquis une grande notoriété avec de fascinantes photos en couleur à la limite de l’abstraction, tant dans la forme que dans le contenu. Dans ses photos, les...
« Ensembles, la photographie » : l'exposition de la Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) a pris ses quartiers d'été à Arles. Et ce sont les murs des chapelles du Méjean et de Saint-Laurent Le Capitole qui servent d'écrin aux joyaux de l'institution.
Commencée il y a plus de 35 ans, la collection de la MEP compte à ce jour 21 000 oeuvres environ. En voir une infime partie, c'est déjà en voir beaucoup.
A la Chapelle du Méjean, on révisera ses classiques, tandis qu'à Saint-Laurent Le Capitole, on fera face à des œuvres plus contemporaines. En deux actes, pas un drame, ni une comédie, plutôt un dialogue savoureux entre les photographes les plu...
This year’s shortlist reflects a diversity of attitudes towards the medium underpinned by an exploration into new and unexpected modes of presentation incorporating video, text, object and wall-based photographic displays.
Nikolai Bakharev’s ambiguous images of Russian bathers on public beaches in the 80s and 90s, at a time when photographs of nudity were forbidden, play on the tension between acceptable and unacceptable imagery, public and private realms. In the work of Zanele Muholi, the personal and political are also interwoven in her tender, unflinching portraits and testimonies of the South African LGBTI community.
© Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse
South Africa further provides a location and point of political departure in the work of Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse. ...
The ICA is delighted to present a solo exhibition of recent work by Viviane Sassen, a photographer who has garnered parallel critical acclaim as a fashion photographer and in the context of contemporary visual art. The content of the exhibition focuses predominantly on a body of work that Sassen made in Pikin Slee, Suriname in 2013. Pikin Slee is the second-largest village on the Upper Suriname River, deep within the Surinamese rainforest. The exhibition consists of black and white and colour works shot on an analogue camera.
In her first visit to Pikin Slee in the summer of 2012, Sassen was intrigued by the village and its inhabitants. Her eye was caught by the overwhelming natural beauty and the Saramacca's very traditional way of living, combined with the more mundane objects which seemed to seep through daily ...
Exposition at Fotomuseum Winterthur, "In and out fashion"
Viviane Sassen (born 1972) is one of the most exciting practitioners of contemporary fashion photography. Her visual world is both innovative and challenging colorful, formally inventive, and sometimes even surreal.
Le Cœur en Skaï Mauve © Viviane Sasse
Surpassing the clichés of the fashion business, she uses the performative nature of fashion photography for her own purposes. Exploring the sculptural potential of the body and using it to create ingenious choreographies, she structures her images through the use of strong, sometimes mysterious shadows and a striking force of color.
E’s Jacket © Viviane Sassen
In 2007 Sassen was awarded the Prix de Rome and in 2011 the ICP Infinity Award for A...
The Photographer’s Playspace features twenty photographers who have created new works in response to assignments from the Aperture book The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas, a recently published compilation designed to inspire fresh perspectives in a photographer’s creative process.
Using assignments selected by Christopher McCall, director of Pier 24 Photography, the photographers produced works that both reflect a continuation of established practices and represent new directions in making pictures. The exhibition reveals each artist’s distinctive process and aesthetic, demonstrating how a simple prompt can inspire renewed engagement with the medium.
Photographers and their assignments:
Eric William Carroll responded to an assignment by John Baldessari
Melissa Catane...
This exhibition focuses on her fashion work and features around 350 images that subvert the limits and conventions of this genre. Sassen has conceived an immersive installation for The Photographers’ Gallery, presenting her images as a series of dynamic looped projections which sweep over and across the gallery walls and floor. Mirrors and specially defined projection areas dissect the photographed bodies and disturb the viewers’ sense of gravity and viewing expectations.
The title Analemma refers toan astronomical term describing an eight-shaped curve, which maps the position of the sun in relation to time. Here it evokes the transient seasonal flow of fashion, as well as echoing the constantly moving projections in the space.
Sassen’s work is characterised by an unwillingness to conform to preva...
Modern Times est la première exposition de photographie du 20ème siècle jamais présentée au Rijksmuseum.
Elle montrera 400 des 20 000 œuvres acquises depuis que le musée a décidé en 1994 d’étendre sa collection photographique au 20ème siècle.
L’exposition couvrira des domaines et des sujets aussi variés que les débuts de la photographie couleur, la photographie de mode, l’apparition et l’importance du photojournalisme. Elle présentera des photographes amateurs comme de grands maîtres de la photographie du 20ème siècle.
Les œuvres d’artistes majeurs et reconnus comme Man Ray, Brassai, William Klein, ou Joel Meyerowitz, côtoieront les travaux d’...
« Ce qui fonde la nature de la photographie, c’est la pose. Peu importe la durée physique de cette pose, même le temps d’un millionième de seconde, il y a toujours eu pose : dans la photo, quelque chose s’est posé devant le petit trou et y est resté à jamais. »R. Barthes
Le temps de pose ou temps d’exposition est l’intervalle de temps pendant lequel l’obturateur de l’appareil photo laisse passer la lumière lors d’une prise de vue. Sur la pellicule, une image s’imprime, qui fixe le sujet photographié dans une certaine posture. Arrêt, pause : pris en images, les figures et leur gestes échappent à la fuite du temps. Et c’est en ce sens-là que l’on p...
Pikin Slee is the second-largest village on the Upper Suriname River, deep within the rainforest of Suriname. Its 4000 inhabitants are mostly members of the Saramacca tribe, their ancestors Maroons who escaped slavery on the Dutch plantations in the 18th century.
The Saramacca are isolated from the outside world, living without running water, electricity, roads or the internet. The only way to access the village is by canoe, a journey of about three hours up-river. They grow their food on small agricultural plots, producing cassava bread, pressed maripa palm oil and dried coconut.
In her first visit to Pikin Slee in the summer of 2012, Sassen was intrigued by the village and its inhabitants; she saw her own history as somehow tied to theirs, in their respective connections to Africa and the Netherlands. Her ey...
Cela peut paraître un paradoxe : c’est dans un esprit de découverte que les Rencontres d’Arles proposent en 2013 un parcours radicalement noir et blanc.
Jusque dans les années 1980 la couleur est regardée avec mépris, tandis que le noir et blanc est la photographie d’art par essence.
Le lent déclin du noir et blanc débute dans les années 1990 lorsque la couleur s’installe avec son lot de progrès techniques (films et tirages argentiques) et que le marché de l’art porte un intérêt soudain à la photographie, numérotant les tirages et starifiant de jeunes photographes.
Le noir disparaît presque totalement après 2000, la couleur installant sa suprématie dans toutes les pr...
The first extensive overview of 17 years’ fashion photography by Viviane Sassen
Fashion photography that goes far beyond the confines of the genre.
A modernist research into form that has yielded a surreal beauty and an innovative vocabulary within fashion photography. In the Netherlands and abroad Viviane Sassen is known foremost as an artist, whose somewhat surreal, colourful photographs of Africa won her the Prix de Rome in 2007. Alongside her autonomous work, however, she has long worked as a fashion photographer. Her fashion work is held in high regard, and she has carved out her own unmistakable style. Huis Marseille is exhibiting a retrospective of her fashion oeuvre over the last 17 years.
The retrospective shows images built up like a painting or a collage and which arise in free associatio...
La vocation première du Château d'Eau est de présenter des expositions d'auteurs interrogeant le langage photographique et enrichissant son vocabulaire. Mais cette institution est également riche d'une collection initiées dès les années 70 par Jean Dieuzaide, son fondateur, et qui comporte aujourd'hui près de 4 000 tirages.
Aux côtés de grands classiques comme André Kertész, Auguste Sander ou Willy Ronis, et d'auteurs à l'écriture photographique désormais admise comme Bernard Plossu, Ralph Gibson, John Batho, se trouvent de jeunes artistes dont le Château d'Eau a soutenu la démarche.
Ainsi, cette exposition met en échos des oeuvres de photographes rec...
Growing up is a time of self-searching. Who am I and who do I want to be? It is a time of trying to ground oneself in the world and build a relationship with one’s own persona. Each individual must personally undergo the experience of transition from a protected childhood into a social system of relationships and responsibility, finding one’s role in group dynamics, identifying, and testing possibilities and boundaries. Artistic photography has repeatedly examined this phase of life, from at least two different perspectives. One is the viewpoint of actual experience – a young adult who shares the lives of the protagonists with whom he or she is involved. Then there is the adult perspective on the phenomena of youth, which takes a different form of expression due to a certain distance and life experie...
The exhibition at Forma will present an ample selection of photographs by the Dutch artist, taken during her travels in Africa, Viviane describes this continent through Flamboya's colours, a tropical tree with bright and fleshy flowers. These images bear witness to the photographer's research, aimed at rediscovering her early years spent on the African continent, yet it also provides an opportunity for her to rethink photography, its rules and meanings, poised between testimony and memory. In Viviane Sassen's splendid photographs we certainly do not find those stereotypes westerners are used to applying to Africa, this is a different, more intimate view. Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania are the settings for these images which show an extraordinary treatment of colour and a very particular use of shadow, lending a slightl...