A day in the life….
Viviane Sassen

“In the limited edition series A day in the life of… photographers are portraying a day in their lives, fiction as non-fiction. The fifth publication in this monthly series is completed by Amsterdam based Viviane Sassen who put together a sequence of pictures done with a digital point-and-shoot during a day in Marsa Alam, Egypt, where she spent a holiday with her family, February 2009. She mainly focused on her young son Lucius.”

Just received my copy from libraryman publisher, it is perfect. It is great to finally see some black & white work from Sassen. Shadows throughout again are where we least expect them to be, she brings objects together with her subjects which make for new connections to be made between the two. Sassens ability to create moments alongside the realities of the everyday make her fine art work personal in every sense. The size of the book feels intimate, some photographs are spread across two pages and some placed next to a blank, this creates a tone which engages us to consider each with the next. It is also interesting to think about the medium she used, a digital point-and-press, not a professional camera but this seems to fit in whilst she was travelling with her family, it is all about the end product and how it captures something. She may always be behind the camera but in every scene she projects something of her own dreams and desires in front of the lens.