The World According to Roger Ballen L’Œil de la Photographie February 4, 2020 Roger in His World “I often hear people referring to my photographs as disturbing, dark, scary … It is obvious to me that this response reveals a state of mental repression, a mind that is talking to itself, one that is […]
Photographer Roger Ballen’s journey into the depths of the mind – BRUZZ Culture Video Live
Roger Ballen: I fink U freeky South Africa is summery, while Belgium is increasingly autumnal. Roger Ballen is too busy to notice the seasonal change. Surrounded by mannequins, music instruments, and masks, he sits on a wobbly chair surveying the troops that will transform the CENTRALE for Contemporary Art into the Theatre of the Ballenesque. […]
The World According to Roger Ballen – British Journal of Photography
For nearly 40 years Roger Ballen has been an outsider, operating on the margins with his fellow art brut artists. Now a new book and exhibition offer a glimpse inside the workings and processes of his dark mind, a world, he says, that, “reveals itself through itself”
Roger Ballen delves into the human psyche, conjuring up our darkest fears – Collaboration / FvF x Unseen
No other twenty first century photographer is as consistently committed to visualising the shadowy realms of the mind as Roger Ballen. Throughout his career the psychological images he creates have embodied an aesthetic that we now unflinchingly refer to as Ballenesque.
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The World According to Roger Ballen – The British Journal of Photography
For nearly 40 year Roger Ballen has been an outsider, operating on the margins with his fellow art brut artists . Now a new book and exhibition offer a glimpse inside the workings and processes of his dark mind, a world, he says , that , “ reveals itself through itself ”. Words and portrait […]
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 […]
The World According to Roger Ballen at Halle Saint Pierre
Published by Thames and Hudson to coincide with Roger Ballen’s first major French exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France. The exhibition will take place from 7 September 2019 to 31 July 2010. “Roger Ballen reigns over the black-and-white world of the human psyche. Disturbing, provocative and enigmatic, the work of this American-born South […]
The Everlasting Enigma of Roger Ballen – Blind: Photography at First Sight
To encounter the South Africa-based American photographer Roger Ballen means to experience the uncanny nature of his photographs. The artist enjoys showing them to you in an easygoing, straightforward manner over lunch, which he barely touches, choosing instead to reveal some of the secrets of his art… Discussion, 2018 Roger Ballen has lively, piercing […]
Captured: A Walk Through Roger Ballen’s Career – Lure Magazine
TAKE A VISUAL JOURNEY THROUGH ROGER BALLEN’S BIOGRAPHY AND EVOLUTION OF STYLE. A boy from Westchester, New York, turned wandering geologist, turned photographer of social outcasts — Roger Ballen’s biography is as fantastic as the portraits he’s captured over the past five decades. Deathbed, 2010 In 1968, Ballen’s parents gifted their recent high-school grad […]