Manon Sas (1973, The Netherlands) is an independent documentary photographer with a fascination for places and hidden stories. She explores the tension between what is visible and what remains covered and concealed. Her work often leads to uncanny and offbeat locations where echoes of the past are still felt. Reality and fiction intertwine, sometimes revealing the tangible influence of societal systems.

 

With her project Under the Hedge, Manon is looking into Catholic children who died before they were baptised. There was no place for them in heaven and they could only be buried in unconsecrated ground, for example under or behind the hedge of the cemetery.

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Manon is currently working on Bloedberg, a project exploring state labour schemes for the unemployed – initiatives designed not only to get work done, but to shape people and make them ‘useful’. Machines were switched

off so that forests, canals, sports fields and viewing hills could be built entirely by hand.

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Manon was trained at Amsterdam Photo Academy and by photographer Milan Gies (ongoing) and completed several storytelling and illustration courses at Berlin art schools, including Universität der Künste and BtK University of Art and Design. She's a member of Collectief Studio 307,

an Amsterdam-based group of photographers that work on individual

long-term projects. 

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Assignments, collabs and personal projects include portraits,

documentary, street, conceptual photography, travel blogs

(for example about Albania and China) and illustrations. 

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Editie West - group exhibition Collectief Studio 307 - 2025

Onder de heg - solo exhibition - Archeology Museum - 2024

Editie Noord - group exhibition Collectief Studio 307 2023

Memory - group exhibition Pulchri 2023

GUP/NEW photography talent 2022

Studio 307 Amsterdam group exhibition 2022

Tirana Photo Festival 2021 & 2022

Esthetiekprijs des Vaderlands 2021

Finalist De Beeldmakers - Parool & Vandejong 2020

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Thanks for checking in and feel free to leave a message for feedback, enquiries or collabs. 

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Manon Sas | Utrecht, The Netherlands