Viviane Sassen began making photo books by herself in the 1990s while she was in art school, and later in the 2000s, began collaborating with publishers and designers. To date, she has worked on 25 photo books in total. She will talk about how she lays-out the photographs on a photo book, tells her stories, and adds the essence of texts written by writers, poets, and herself. She will also touch a topic such as the difference of creation between “exhibition" and "photo book."
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.
【Hankyu Railway】Direct access on the basement level from Kyoto-kawaramachi Station on the Hankyu Kyoto Line
【Keihan Railway】Keihan Gion Shijo Station, 5-minute walk
