Roger Ballen’s photography only gradually became known in Europe and the United States: too different, too surprising to attract attention right away, too personal to be assimilated into current fashions.
Ballen is entirely original in his choice of subjects and creation of images.
Clear black and white prints of rarefied elements: people, pets, little objects captured in settings which are so simple as to be almost absent.
His photography explores South Africa as we have never seen it before, despite all the media coverage, and as we never imagined it.
His is a ‘domestic’, intimate vision, an eye that penetrates the true experience of humble, sometimes bizarre characters, absolutely free of false piety and forced political statements.
Roger Ballen’s photography only gradually became known in Europe and the United States: too different, too surprising to attract attention right away, too personal to be assimilated into current fashions.
Ballen is entirely original in his choice of subjects and creation of images.
Clear black and white prints of rarefied elements: people, pets, little objects captured in settings which are so simple as to be almost absent.
His photography explores South Africa as we have never seen it before, despite all the media coverage, and as we never imagined it.
His is a ‘domestic’, intimate vision, an eye that penetrates the true experience of humble, sometimes bizarre characters, absolutely free of false piety and forced political statements.