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Showcase: Framed by Imagination

Roger Ballen’s style may bring to mind painters like Jean Dubuffet and Francis Bacon rather than the work of other photographers. His haunting, cramped images, as Kristen Joy Watts reports, thwart any expectations of a clear narrative.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/showcase-81/

Roger Ballen, 59, is a professional geologist, a “mineral explorationist.” For decades he traveled to nearly every African country looking for deposits of diamonds, clay, cobalt and coal.

“I think the most important issue is you looking at the picture, and the picture looking at you.”