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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 […]

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House of the Ballenesque

Roger Ballen revisits Arles in France after an absence of 15 years and transforms an abandoned house that he visited in 2012.  Join Roger on his rediscovery and allow your mind to be transformed.  The House of the Ballenesque is featured in Arles at Les Recontres de la Photographie until 24 September 2017.
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Tommy Can’t Sleep

This article originally appeared on Noisey US. Die Antwoord's new short film, Tommy Can't Sleep, opens with a shadow-eyed kid called Tommy lying in a bed beneath an AK-47, the words "PENIS FUCK" scrawled onto the headboard, rat noises in the background. The first word that leaves Tommy's mouth is "FUCK." He doesn't like the [...]
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Roger Ballen in conversation with William A. Ewing

Considered one of the most original image-makers of the twenty-first century, American-born photographer Roger Ballen has lived and worked in South Africa for four decades. His latest work, Asylum of the Birds, is set within the confines of a makeshift house on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

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