First edition & printing Etan & Me is a story of love and loss, of Eros and Thanatos. It's a story about the exploration of het Self and the Other. Are we ever able to truly know someone, to truly know ourselves? These are the questions which come to mind when looking at this book of artist/ photographer Viviane Sassen. In a remote vollage in the jungle of Suriname, she took portraits of this young man called Etan and combined them with blurred and scattered self-portraits, reflecting on the ancient myth's of Narcissus and the Origin of Painting by Piny the Elder.