Roger Ballen
American–South African photographer (born 1950) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Born | (1950-04-11) April 11, 1950 (age 74) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Nationality | American/South African |
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Occupation | Photographer/artist |
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Spouse | Lynda Ballen |
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Website | www |