Roger Ballen is one of the most astonishing and creative contemporary photographers. A sublime retrospective book has just been published by Thames and Hudson. […]…
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Interview with Amanda Ballen, September 2025. Amanda Ballen : In your sixty-year career you have developed a unique and distinctive aesthetic called the “Ballenesque.” […]…
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Grounded in the chaotic, absurd psychological space of the Ballenesque, Spirits and Spaces reveals Roger Ballen’s creative vision in colour. Having previously worked solely […]…
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Dante’s Inferno, written at the dawn of the fourteenth century, has nourished the imagination of artists and poets for seven hundred years, having been […]…
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The Inside Out Centre for the Arts, founded by Roger Ballen in 2022, is a non-profit space in Johannesburg’s Forest Town that explores African […]…
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Opened in 2025, just across the threshold from the Inside Out Centre for the Arts, Roger Ballen established the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography, […]…
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“Roger Ballen.! drawing meets photography” opened at Museum Gugging on the 25th of September. Curated by Nina Ansperger, the photography-based exhibition acts to shift […]…
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Roger Ballen: Shadows of the Mind is a retrospective exhibition of photographic works by South African based photographer and visual artist, Roger Ballen. Curated […]…
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Gérard Rancinan is one of the most astonishing French photographers. Above all, the most flamboyant. I once wrote that he was the greatest of […]…
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Gérard Rancinan covered global news for the SYGMA agency, and experienced the golden age of photojournalism. He photographed Pope […]…
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