Within the ballenesque
Roger Ballen’s strange, psychological scene-scapes, with their immersive black-and-white aesthetic, are a powerful force in contemporary photography. Ballen’s work is always compulsive viewing, says Colin Rhodes.
You May Be A Photographer, But Are You An Artist?
The Protean and Unsettling Universe of Roger Ballen
Interview with Roger Ballen by Ken Weingart
Roger Ballen is well known fine art photographer who has been creating exciting imagery for over 50 years. He has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world. His innovative work has created a new adjective in the Art world: “ Ballenesque”. In this interview, I had the opportunity to get inside […]
Roger Ballen and Hans Lemmen present Unleashed
The exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature offers an opportunity to follow the creative process of two artists, Roger Ballen and Hans Lemmen.
Roger Ballen: Theatrical Mechanics
Roger Ballen: The Theatre of Apparitions captures the full creative scope of a figure known for investigations into the human unconscious. The artist’s early work depicting sub-cultures who lived on the fringes of society were initially met with public hesitance, however, his subsequent series Shadow Chamber (2005), Boarding House (2009) and Asylum (2011) paved Ballen’s […]
Retrospective of South African photo artist lays his career bare
Life after death captured in photos by Roger Ballen
His work may appear two-toned at first glance, but photographer Roger Ballen weaves deep layers of color into his complex art. Ballen was born in New York and first introduced to a camera at age thirteen by his mother, an editor with Magnum photography agency. He moved to South Africa in 1982 after falling in […]