Fashion photographer Viviane Sassen

Fashion photographer Viviane Sassen: a different take | Fashion | The Observer: "Like a handful of mavericks before her – Guy Bourdin and Juergen Teller spring to mind – Sassen has reinvented the form by following her instincts. What is striking about her images is that the clothes and the models are mere props for her imagination: a pair of legs stick through holes in a wall; a girl with a bright red face leans over on a pavement as if defying gravity. She uses mirrors, scissors, paint and Photoshop to mess with the viewer's preconceptions about what a fashion photograph is. It is a long way from the glossiness of Vogue, closer to a post-digital photographic surrealism, though Sassen often still shoots on film and applies Photoshop "in the most amateur and unfinished way". She is, she says, "always impatient and eager to finish" and finds the constraints of "all the hair and make-up stuff" too frustrating." (read more at link above)

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