Heliotrope is part of the Annual Series NO.6 – Four Book Set by TBW Books.

Heliotrope is a collection of images in which Sassen investigates new ways of making and altering photographs that she shot on recent travels to Ethiopia, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, and South Africa. “I aim at subverting the way I look at these images, and at the world. Color, graphic shapes, and shadows are my tools to revisit, reinterpret and gather a different understanding of what seems familiar. The ordinary and the magical merge. The series is underpinned by the impulse to explore unknown territories, physical or metaphorical.”

A clear departure from Sassen’s previous book works, Heliotrope alludes to a photographic future with endless technical possibilities for a medium still in its infancy.