Viviane Sassen is an artist who alternates between personal, editorial, and commercial works to embrace an interdisciplinary attitude. Known for her unique abstraction of bodies, Sassen uses geometric shapes, bold colors under unmistakable lights, and applies different agents to her photographs in order to create multifaceted works. She says, "You should always be able to judge a photograph on different grounds. On political, social, emotional, but also on personal grounds." In this masterclass, participants will learn how to handcraft experimental pieces by combining separate images and ideas.
[If you are]
Photographers mainly interested in portraiture
Photographers with finished or in-progress projects in portraiture
Photographers attempting to improve concept building and communication skills
[How to apply]
Apply to this masterclass with information below via email addressed to: masterclass@kyotographie.jp
Name
Phone number and email address
10-piece portfolio in a ZIP file (JPG / 72dpi / 2000 pixel in longer side)
Artist statement in PDF
A short bio
We’ll send instruction for the payment of the fee in reply to your application
Viviane Sassen was born in 1972 in Amsterdam and lives there. She studied fashion design, followed by photography at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) and Ateliers Arnhem. Her work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions, including Lexicon at Foto Kunst Stadforum, Innsbruck, Austria in 2017; Umbra at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg in 2017; and Umbra at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago in 2017. Sassen has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in 2017; at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam in 2017; at CAFA Museum, China in 2018; at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco in 2020; and at Fotomuseum, Winterthur in 2022. Her work was featured in the main exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace in 2013. In 2011, Sassen was awarded the International Center of Photography in New York’s Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography. In 2015, she was awarded the David Octavius Hill Medal from the German Photography Academy. She has also received numerous awards for her publications.
