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Dresie and Casie, Twins, Western Transvaal, 1993.

Photograph: Roger Ballen

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.”

NYT

April 24, 2018

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

Photographer Roger Ballen: ‘I can live with myself’

Roger Ballen caused a storm

with his portraits of marginalised and mentally unstable South Africans.

Is he merely reflecting a broken society – or exploiting his subjects?

Sean O’Hagan meets the controversial photographer

Man drawing chalk faces, 2000

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Sunday 5 April 2015        16.00 BST        Sean O'Hagan

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/apr/05/
roger-ballen-outland-interview

Roger Ballen

https://www.rogerballen.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/11/

my-head-is-on-fire-roger-ballen-finds-poetry-in-pain-in-pictures

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

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/
inside-roger-ballens-mind-a-place-of-refugee-and-madness/

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/05/
roger-ballen-outsider-portraits-outland-photographs-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/apr/05/
roger-ballen-outland-interview

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2015/apr/05/
roger-ballen-darkness-video-outland

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/
showcase-81/

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