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
Tommy Can’t Sleep
You May Be A Photographer, But Are You An Artist?
Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Mind
Presenting Roger Ballen’s latest video Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Mind. A psychological thriller set in a zone between sanity and insanity, dream and reality, the film takes Ballen’s work to the next level.
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.
Get spooked: Photographs aim to terrify
Artist and photographer Roger Ballen hopes his work, Asylum of the Birds, will haunt you.