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Finding the decisive moment in Roger Ballen’s shadow chamber – News24

Ballen’s move from documentary (though always artfully composed) photography into art photography, and photos in which he stages his subjects within a constructed environment, may seem to reject the “decisive moment” seized from a living trajectory, but it’s there. He may put a great deal of work into his environments, after much finding, but they […]

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Roger Ballen launches “Ballenesque” – The Sunday Times, 16 August 2022

Based on an entirely new appraisal of Ballen’s archive, one that looks beyond his monographic projects for the first time, Ballenesque takes the reader on a visual  chronological tour of the photographer’s entire oeuvre, including the iconic images and previously unpublished works. At the heart of the book is Ballen’s own exploration of his style […]

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