Photographers on Photographers: Suzanne T. White in Conversation with Roger Ballen – LENSCRATCH

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Photographers on Photographers: Suzanne T. White in Conversation with Roger Ballen – LENSCRATCH

We are re-running this post from last year, enjoy! Roger Ballen generously took the time to speak with me via Zoom from South Africa. It was truly an honor to interview him as I have been a fan of his for a long time. His work reaches into the psyche, it is deeply disturbing while

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It is this issue of core versus experience.  The core isn’t enough to be able to take great photographs – it is 50 something years of building on an aesthetic – you learn from this aesthetic.  It helps you to create other aesthetics.  If you don’t do the work, then you don’t go anywhere.

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