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Roger Ballen x Die Antwoord

By Rosi Frais on May 14, 2019 in Articles
This article was originally published on forward-festival.com When looking at Roger Ballen’s photographs you might think “What the fuck?!, “Who are these people?”, “Where do they live?” and “Jesus, who the hell took these pictures?”. Well at least that was, what Yolandi & Ninja, better known as Die Antwoord, thought when they saw his work for the [...]
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Six photographers who helped us visualise the human psyche

By Lexi Manatakis on March 4, 2019 in Articles
This article was originally published on dazeddigital.com We explore the photographers who took influence from mortality, eroticism and existentialism. When photography was discovered in the early 1800s, audiences were enraptured. Fascinated by the idea that time could be frozen, the medium was approached with the utmost rationality. But what early consumers could never have anticipated was its potential [...]
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The Dark Web

By Steve Dow on March 1, 2019 in Interviews

Rats, rabbits and snakes surround skinny, angular, shirtless dancers, all rendered in black and white in a dark room whose filthy walls are daubed in drawings of aroused part-human, part-animal figures.

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Roger Ballen: Beyond the Mind

By The Bod Edit on September 26, 2018 in Interviews

Exploring the dark, bizarre and dreamlike world of photographer Roger Ballen. In an exclusive interview with one of the most original and influential photographic artists of the 20th century, we talk fantasy and the magical alchemy of the human imagination.

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Roger Ballen’s New Polaroid Photos Are Instant Nightmares

By Beckett Mufson on September 21, 2018 in Articles
This article was originally published on vice.com Roger Ballen got famous for his eerie photos of abandoned urban sprawl and the discarded people who live there. Over 60 years spent constantly shooting pictures between schooling and working in geology, he’s carved out an unmistakable chunk of visual territory. Even as his aesthetic melded with grungy [...]
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Ballenesque: An insight into the life and work of Roger Ballen

By Pete Littlewood on March 2, 2018 in Articles, Videos

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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