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Roger Ballen Revisits His Never-Before-Published Woodstock Photos – The New York Times

When the American photographer Roger Ballen named his 2018 retrospective book “Ballenesque,” the title immediately conjured his distinctive aesthetic. His best-known images are unsettling portraits of people on the fringes of society, taken in interior spaces, the walls of which Ballen has covered with primitive drawings. But long before he made his reputation in the […]

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The Dark Web

Rats, rabbits and snakes surround skinny, angular, shirtless dancers, all rendered in black and white in a dark room whose filthy walls are daubed in drawings of aroused part-human, part-animal figures.

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Roger Ballen: Beyond the Mind

Exploring the dark, bizarre and dreamlike world of photographer Roger Ballen. In an exclusive interview with one of the most original and influential photographic artists of the 20th century, we talk fantasy and the magical alchemy of the human imagination.

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Interview with Roger Ballen by Ken Weingart

Roger Ballen is well known fine art photographer who has been creating exciting imagery for over 50 years. He has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world. His innovative work has created a new adjective in the Art world: “ Ballenesque”. In this interview, I had the opportunity to get inside […]

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