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.
Get spooked: Photographs aim to terrify
Artist and photographer Roger Ballen hopes his work, Asylum of the Birds, will haunt you.
Inside Roger Ballen’s Mind: A Place of Refuge and Madness
An asylum can be either a refuge or a place of madness. In Roger Ballen’s new book, “Asylum of the Birds,” it is both. His photographs were taken in Johannesburg in a dilapidated house that was inhabited by hundreds of birds – and dozens of immigrants, fugitives or homeless people.
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 […]
Roger Ballen Interview
Roger Ballen is among the most talented and successful photographic artists in the world today. He was kind enough to agree to an extensive interview last month, and is also allowing us to publish images from two forthcoming books.
The Descent into the Asylum – Roger Ballen’s new works
“Photography is like going into the mineshaft”, says Roger Ballen, and well he should know. As a geologist, his fieldwork sometimes has taken him 2 kilometers under the earth’s surface, in search of diamonds, gold, and other minerals. These subterranean pursuits have deeply influenced him, supporting his artistic development, which he likens to a psychological […]
Zoning In. An interview with Roger Ballen.
Robert Enright: You’ve talked about being inundated by photographs as a child because your mother was an editor at Magnum. Roger Ballen: There were all these pictures on the wall that had been given to us by various photographers, or which my mother bought. I ended up assimilating all sorts of pictures and by the […]