Do you read me?! › Newsletter Juli 2012 – Fashionweek. Viviane Sassen: Flomboya. “How is it to be young in Africa?”
Is a question Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen once thought she could answer without the shadow of a doubt –for she herself had been brought up in Kenya. Though she was still a child when her family decided to move back to the Netherlands, her memories of Africa remained vivid – at first as images of a longed-for home and, later on, as a set of fetish moments. She always carried in thoughts the barren plateaus of Kenya, the rewarding friendship with the children stricken with polio living across the street and the visions of a father who would spent his time surrounded by illness trying to find cure for his patients.
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