Tag: Roger Ballen

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

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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August 23, 2024
Photographers on Photographers: Suzanne T. White in Conversation with Roger Ballen – LENSCRATCH

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

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 also embracing the absur

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/08/photographers-on-photographers-suzanne-t-white-in-conversation-with-roger-ballen/

Well, see I’ve never really thought of it as a profession. Rather, it is the creative process, which is automatic and ritualistic, like brushing my teeth. I don’t think about how I should or shouldn’t do it or why I am doing it.

August 6, 2023
Juxtapoz Magazine – Sheltering in Place: Ideas From “The Photographer’s Playbook”

Juxtapoz Magazine – Sheltering in Place: Ideas From “The Photographer’s Playbook”

Navel gazing can get a little old, so, in the coming weeks (months?), as we find ourselves counting the hours till lunchtime on the sofa, we look for…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/sheltering-in-place-ideas-from-the-photographer-s-playbook/

Edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern and published by Aperture, The Photographer’s Playbook contains advice, exercises and insight from John Baldessari, Tim Barber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jim Goldberg, Miranda July, Susan Meiselas, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Stephen Shore, Alec Soth, Mark Steinmetz, Roger Ballen, David Campany, Asger Carlson, Ari Marcopoulos, Todd Hido, and many more. —Text compiled by Alex Nicholson

March 26, 2020
The Dark Side: Roger Ballen’s ‘Asylum’

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Roger Ballen’s photographs are as much alluring as they are unsettling. For nearly 50 years, Ballen has used photography to explore some of the most upsetting parts of the psyche—and, in that period, he has created some of the most exquisite and unique images of everything from people and skeletons to animals and nature.

January 10, 2020
Ballenesque, a retrospective of Roger Ballen – The Eye of Photography

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Known for his probing, often challenging images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography, yet until now, no comprehensive retrospective on African photographer Roger Ballen has been released yet. Based on an entirely new appraisal of his archive, one that looks beyond his monographic projects for the first time, the book Ballenesque takes the reader on a visual, chronological tour of the photographer’s entire oeuvre, including both the iconic images and previously unpublished works.

January 10, 2020
A Puzzle With No Solution: Roger Ballen’s Quest for Meaning Through Photography – The New York Times

A Puzzle With No Solution: Roger Ballen’s Quest for Meaning Through Photography

The internationally renowned artist, 68, tells those who want to follow in his footsteps: “You need time to germinate.”

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/lens/a-puzzle-with-no-solution-roger-ballens-quest-for-meaning-through-photography.html

The internationally renowned artist, 68, tells those who want to follow in his footsteps: “You need time to germinate.”

April 25, 2018
Ballenesque – The Leica Camera Blog

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Ballenesque – The Leica Camera Blog

An insight into the life and work of Roger Ballen

March 2, 2018
An Interview with Fine Art Photographer Roger Ballen

An Interview with Fine Art Photographer Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen is well-known fine art photographer who has been creating exciting imagery for over 50 years. He has been widely exhibited in museums and

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I want to go out and take photographs. I just relax and keep a focused mind and make the photographs. I don’t have any particular goals. I’ve always said that if you define my pictures with words other than enigmatic or mysterious, then the pictures are bad.

April 27, 2017
Roger Ballen on Photographers vs. Artists

Roger Ballen on Photographers vs. Artists | PDNPulse

Roger Ballen on when photography becomes art.

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Ballen offers seven distinguishing characteristics that set photographers-as-photographers apart from photographers-as-artists

February 29, 2016
Interview with Roger Ballen about his book Outland – The Eye of Photography

Interview with Roger Ballen about his book Outland

This month Roger Ballen releases an expanded edition of his critically acclaimed book, Outland published by Phaidon Press which features 45 previously unpublished photographs. Along with this new incarnation of the book, Ballen has collaborated with director Ben Crossman for the second time to create an accompanying video for Outland, which re-introduces some of Ballen’s protagonists 15 years after the fact.

April 21, 2015
Juxtapoz Editions: Photography Zine

Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Editions: Photography Zine

Our newest Juxtapoz Editions release is Photography, a 32-page zine featuring some of the most influential names and talents in contemporary photograp…

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Our newest Juxtapoz Editions release is Photography, a 32-page zine featuring some of the most influential names and talents in contemporary photographer. Starting with cover artist Roger Ballen, our Photography zine includes Mike Brodie, Alex Prager, Tim Barber, Swampy, Jennilee Marigomen, Bill Daniel, Tod Seelie, Daniel Arnold, Asger Carlsen, Austin McManus, Yumiko Utsu, Gregory Halpern, and Peter Sutherland

February 20, 2014
Roger Ballen’s Asylum of the Birds

Roger Ballen’s “Asylum of the Birds”

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Roger Ballen grew up in New York City, surrounded by photographs and photographers—his mother was a picture editor for Magnum and a gallerist. He first trained as a geologist, a job that took him to South Africa—where he has lived and worked since the nineteen-eighties— and, he says, accustomed him to digging deep and bringing what he finds to the surface.

April 25, 2013
Roger Ballen Interview

Roger Ballen Interview – A Photo Editor

by Jonathan Blaustein 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. J

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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.

March 20, 2013
Mono: Volume One

Link: Mono: Volume One | Le Journal de la Photographie

MONO Volume One is the first hardback of a trilogy, showcasing an inspiring collection of contemporary black & white photography. Its 270 pages feature a broad scope of internationally renowned artists such as Antoine D’Agata, Trent Parke, Anders Petersen and Roger Ballen

January 17, 2013
Getxo Photo 2012: Roger Ballen

Link: Getxo Photo 2012: Roger Ballen | Le Journal de la Photographie

Textures, compositions, objects, animals, disturbing characters and graphic elements create unique compositions that emotionally captivate the spectator. It would be a futile endeavour to attempt to explain his images, for they come from a way of telling that cannot be translated into another discipline

September 12, 2012
Roger Ballen talks about his work | dvafoto

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October 29, 2010
roger ballen – boarding house | burn magazine

roger ballen – boarding house

[slidepress gallery=’rogerballen_boardingroom’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Roger Ballen Boarding House play this essay “It is difficult to expla…

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BOARDING HOUSE is a space of transient residence, of comings and goings, of people sheltered in a place they are using for their immediate survival. Basic and fundamental, the structure is furnished with objects necessary for an elementary existence, decorated with evocative drawings, and littered throughout with animals. Remnants function there as physical symbols of events that have occurred in the space; broken pieces of a functional reality exist as the leftovers of scenarios that have been played out there. The altered sense of place of this temporary abode creates a sense of alienation, which acts as a jumping off point for the imagination to run wild.

February 5, 2010
Short video: Roger Ballen talks about photobooks – lens culture

Roger Ballen talks about photobooks from Jim Casper on Vimeo.

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January 25, 2010
Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers: Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen: Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers from Jim Casper on Vimeo.

American photographer Roger Ballen has been living and photographing in South Africa since the late 1970s. His photographs have caused international controversy, excitement, and debate ever since his book, Platteland: Images of a Rural South Africa, was published in the 1990s. Platteland was filled with raw, direct, disturbing photographs of poor white people in South Africa whose lives had been marginalized by the Apartheid government. While some critics accused Ballen of compiling a “voyeuristic freak show,” Susan Sontag described the book as “the most important sequence of portraits I’ve seen in years.”

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January 16, 2010
Book Review: Roger Ballen – Boarding House

Roger Ballen – Boarding House « The PhotoBook:

For most of the photobooks I review, they usually are stand alone books, but I feel that Roger Ballen’s recent book Boarding House needs to be placed into a larger perspective. Specificly to the content of his two previous books, Shadow Chamber, published in 2005 and Outland, published in 2001, both by Phaidon Press. Otherwise, it feels like I have walked into the middle of an fascinating and entertaining discussion, but I am left at a loss of what the topic is.

June 30, 2009