Tag: Roger Ballen

  • 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…

  • 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 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…

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

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    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…

  • The Dark Side: Roger Ballen’s ‘Asylum’

    The Dark Side: Roger Ballen’s ‘Asylum’

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ 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…

  • Ballenesque, a retrospective of Roger Ballen – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: 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…

  • 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 New York Times

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    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.”

  • Ballenesque – The Leica Camera Blog

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    [contentcards url=”http://blog.leica-camera.com/2018/03/02/ballenesque/”] Ballenesque – The Leica Camera Blog An insight into the life and work of Roger Ballen

  • An Interview with Fine Art Photographer Roger Ballen

    An Interview with Fine Art Photographer Roger Ballen

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    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 via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/04/27/interview-fine-art-photographer-roger-ballen/ I want to go out and take photographs. I just relax and keep a focused mind and make the…

  • Roger Ballen on Photographers vs. Artists

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    Roger Ballen on Photographers vs. Artists | PDNPulse Roger Ballen on when photography becomes art. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/02/roger-ballen-photographers-vs-artists.html Ballen offers seven distinguishing characteristics that set photographers-as-photographers apart from photographers-as-artists

  • Interview with Roger Ballen about his book Outland – The Eye of Photography

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    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…

  • Juxtapoz Editions: Photography Zine

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    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… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/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 photographer. Starting with…

  • Roger Ballen’s Asylum of the Birds

    Roger Ballen’s Asylum of the Birds

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    Roger Ballen’s “Asylum of the Birds” via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/04/slide-show-roger-ballens-asylum-of-the-birds.html#slide_ss_0=1 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…

  • Roger Ballen Interview

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    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 via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/03/20/roger-ballen-interview/…

  • Mono: Volume One

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    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

  • Getxo Photo 2012: Roger Ballen

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    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…

  • Roger Ballen talks about his work | dvafoto

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  • roger ballen – boarding house | burn magazine

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    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… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/02/roger-ballen-boarding-house/ BOARDING HOUSE is a space of transient residence, of comings and goings, of people sheltered in a place they are using…

  • Short video: Roger Ballen talks about photobooks – lens culture

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    Roger Ballen talks about photobooks from Jim Casper on Vimeo. via: Short video: Roger Ballen talks about photobooks – lens culture photography weblog

  • Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers: Roger Ballen

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    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…

  • Book Review: Roger Ballen – Boarding House

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    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…