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Roger Ballen
Born
(1950-04-11) April 11, 1950 (age 74)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality
American/South African
Alma mater
University of California, Berkeley
Colorado School of Mines
Occupation
Photographer/artist
Notable work
Dorps: Small Towns of South Africa
Platteland
Outland
Shadow Chamber
Boarding House
Asylum of the Birds
The Theatre of Apparitions
Ballenesque, Roger Ballen: A Retrospective
The World According to Roger Ballen
Spouse
Lynda Ballen
Children
Amanda Ballen
Paul Ballen
Website
www.rogerballen.com
Roger Ballen (born April 11, 1950) is an American artist living in Johannesburg, South Africa,[1] and working in its surrounds since the 1970s. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, began with the documentary photography field but evolved into the creation of distinctive fictionalized realms that also integrate the mediums of film, installation, theatre, sculpture, painting and drawing. Marginalized people, animals, found objects, wires and childlike drawings inhabit the unlocatable worlds presented in Ballen's artworks. Ballen describes his works as existential psychodramas that touch the subconscious mind and evoke the underbelly of the human condition.[2] They aim to break through the repressed thoughts and feelings by engaging him in themes of chaos and order, madness or unruly states of being, the human relationship to the animal world, life and death, universal archetypes of the psyche and experiences of otherness.[3]
^O'Hagan, Sean (5 April 2015). "Photographer Roger Ballen: 'I can live with myself'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 February 2020 – via www.theguardian.com.
^Peter, Weiermair (2001). "Portraits as Still Lives: The Photographs of Roger Ballen". Absolute Arts.
^Manatakis, Lex (March 2019). "Six photographers who helped us visualise the human psyche". Daze Digital.
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