Archive | Articles

Photography has always walked a crest between reality and fiction, maintaining a precarious balance which, depending upon the stylistic choices of the individual photographer, tilts now towards the documentary, now towards invention; now towards the world as it outwardly seems, now towards its reworking as part of a spatial and narrative construction devised by the […]

A photograph that defies notions of place, subject, or era, can become something quite unfamiliar. Photography’s visual reference points, rendered by the simple process of exposing film to light, map our perception of reality despite the concerns of modern and post-modern theory.

Disturbing, potent lens of Ballen in mid-life Documentary photographer’s constructed imagery offers no respite to viewers, writes Mary Corrigall.

Seeing Roger Ballen’s extensive portfolio Shadow Chamber – made over the past few years – for the first time, there is often a “before” and “after” in the act of aesthetic contemplation.

Roger Ballen’s photographs confront us with things we fear and things we cherish, then sow confusion between the two, writes Sebastian Smee.

Roger Ballen’s technically audacious photography reinterprets the notion that the art form captures ‘the significant moment’, writes Robert Greig.