Disturbing, potent lens of Ballen in mid-life Documentary photographer’s constructed imagery offers no respite to viewers, writes Mary Corrigall.
Roger Ballen’s Shadow Chamber
Seeing Roger Ballen’s extensive portfolio Shadow Chamber – made over the past few years – for the first time, there is often a “before” and “after” in the act of aesthetic contemplation.
States of Mind
Roger Ballen’s photographs confront us with things we fear and things we cherish, then sow confusion between the two, writes Sebastian Smee.
Bleak images make an exhilarating exhibition
Roger Ballen’s technically audacious photography reinterprets the notion that the art form captures ‘the significant moment’, writes Robert Greig.
Demented Innocence
Roger Ballen first gained widespread attention with the release of his third book, Platteland: Images from Rural South Africa (1994). Since that time Ballen has expanded his vision and reputation by building outward from documentary portraiture into a highly complex, personal style, taking his photography into a fascinating, cryptic, vision of the human psyche.