“What caught my eye was the very traditional way of living, the beauty of overwhelming nature, and the notion of the strange lines of faith which tied together my own history and theirs, in the form of our mutual connections to Africa and the Netherlands”
Viviane Sassen
An award-winning Dutch photographer born in Kenya, Viviane Sassen continues her personal work in South America, in a former Dutch slave village in Suriname. The majority of its inhabitants belong to the Saramacca tribe, isolated from the world, self-sufficient. The sensory, memorial and visual traces take on their full beauty in the everyday customs and daily life in the village, shown poetically in alternating color and black-and-white.
EXHIBITION
Stevenson Gallery
January 16 – February 22, 2014
Buchanan Building
160 Sir Lowry Road Woodstock 7925
Cape Town
South Africa
http://www.stevenson.info
BOOK
Viviane Sassen, Pikin Slee
Prestel Publishing
Hardcover, approx. 120 pages
24×28, 9.4 x 11.0 Inches
60 colour illustrations, 50 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-7913-4953-4
US$ 49.95 | GBP 30.00
Date of publication: USA & FRANCE April 21, 2014 | UK March 17, 2014
