Viviane Sassen

Bold and colorful, humane and innovative, the photographs of Viviane Sassen blur the lines between fashion-driven and solely artistic photography. This mid-career retrospective volume features a decade of extraordinary work from the Dutch artist. In addition to images from the acclaimed, larger-than-live series "Umbra," this volume draws from the series, "Flamboya," in which she returned to the Kenya of her childhood, "Parasomnia," a dreamlike exploration of sleep, the "Roxane" series, a mutual portrait created with her muse, Roxane Danset, "Of Lotus and Mud," a study of procreation and fecundity, and "Plikin See," a journey to a remote village in Suriname. Throughout Sassen emerges as a poetic photographer obsessed with light and shadow and a brilliant technician, who is a master of both vibrant color as and muted hues. Selected by Sassen herself, this collection also features a contextualizing essay and an interview with the artist.