Flamboya The Afronauts to his family’s emi­gration from

to his family’s emi­gration from Poland to West Germany in the 1970s and the relatives they left behind

BINDING paperback with dust jacket

being exposed to the staring eye of her everyday spectator – her father –

first edition of 50 copies

heavily influenced by the colonial mindset

Flamboya The Afronauts to his family’s emi­gration fromsold out Contrasto 2008 96 pp Hardbound 30,8 x 24,7 cm first edition , first printing Flamboya includes over fifty photographs taken across Africafrom Cape Town to Kenya to Zambiathat disregard traditional boundaries of genres and tackle the problematic bond between photography, imperialism, and the colonial imagination. Viviane Sassens aesthetic vocabulary suggestively recalls documentary as much as staged photography and relies on a visual economy