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 […]
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Two of art’s most-warped minds collab on a new photo book
By collaging bodies and deformed body parts, animals and cadavers, wooden prostheses and melting constructs, artists Roger Ballen and Asger Carlsen have created a series of twisted and hard to define artworks, resulting in the book titled No Joke.
Roger Ballen: What I Know Now
Roger Ballen goes back to Outland #2
“I think this photograph brings up an important point. You know, one of the most important things about photography is capturing the moment. The moment is really unpredictable in any real way.”
Roger Ballen goes back to Outland #1
Through the late 1990s and into the early 2000s photographer Roger Ballen spent time documenting marginalized people on the fringes of South African society. While this was not a completely new direction for him, the years nevertheless saw a subtle but incredibly important change begin to occur in his photography.
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.
Roger Ballen – Vogue.it
A video interview with Roger Ballen: when photography is rooted in the human mind.
Los Angeles Review of Books
Is astonishment a path to personal truth? Roger Ballen constructs unique photographs that live in a liminal zone between the hauntingly beautiful and the deeply disturbing.
Roger Ballen: ‘Maybe I can speak goat, and I can speak a little chicken’
Emaho Magazine founder Manik Katyal talks to Roger Ballen about his latest book, Asylum of the Birds.
Roger Ballen – Lines and Marks of the Psyche
Roger Ballen has been getting a lot of attention lately for his numerous exhibitions in many different countries. He is about to launch a new body of work, “Asylum of the Birds”, which takes his photography in a whole new direction. Peggy Sue Amison spoke with Roger recently about the launch of this new project […]