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Ballenesque, Roger Ballen: A Retrospective (GAGPROJECTS/Adelaide Festival)
Alison Stieven-Taylor reviews ‘Ballenesque, Roger Ballen: A Retrospective’ (GAGProjects/Adelaide Festival) for Australian Book Review.
Six photographers who helped us visualise the human psyche
Roger Ballen’s New Polaroid Photos Are Instant Nightmares
A Puzzle With No Solution: Roger Ballen’s Quest for Meaning Through Photography
The internationally renowned artist, 68, tells those who want to follow in his footsteps: “You need time to germinate.”
Book Review: Ballenesque, Roger Ballen: A Retrospective
Recent retrospective photobook Ballenesque is the first to be released that examines the titular artist Roger Ballen’s acclaimed 50-year career in its entirety.
Roger Ballen’s Terrifying Photos Conjure Visions of the Apocalypse
Roger Ballen shares brand-new and unseen examples from his archive that he edited for VICE’s theme.
Ballenesque: An insight into the life and work of Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen is one of the most important and original art photographers working today. Best known for his probing, often challenging images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography. Based on an extended interview with the enigmatic artist, this blog post delves a little deeper into Roger Ballen’s artistic evolution, the […]
Great art has to relate to the universal, not to the sensational or what sells
Roger Ballen and Die Antwoord team up for skateboard collab
The warped South African artist taps Yo-landi and Ninja for a series of skateboards that will help fund skate schools in Johannesburg.