Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen was born in New York City, New York, USA in 1950. He has lived in Johannesburg South Africa since the 1970s.

In the fall of 2005, Phaidon press produced its second book by the artist, entitled 'Shadow Chamber'. The book focuses on the interactions between the people, animals, and or objects that inhabit Ballen’s unique image space. Ballen’s recent work enters into a new realm of photography — the images are painterly and sculptural in ways not immediately associated with photographs. Ballen is trying to give with his arts a reflection on the own psyche.^[1]

Published books

• Boarding House, 2009
• Shadow Chamber, 2005
• Fact or Fiction, 2003
• Outland, 2001
• Cette Afrique', 1997
• Platteland, 1996
• Dorps: Small towns of South Africa, Clifton Publications; 1st ed edition (1986)
• Boyhood, 1979

Awards

• Art Directors Club Award Photography - 2006
• Selma Blair Witch Project - New York Times Magazine, October 31, 2005
• Top 10 Exhibition, Matthew Higgs, Artforum-2004
• Citigroup Prize, finalist, UK - 2002
• Photographer of the Year,Rencontres d' Arles - 2002
• Top 10 Exhibition, Vince Aletti, Artforum - 2002
• PhotoEspana, Best Photographic Book of the Year, Spain - 2001
• Photo-eye, Best Documentary Title, Best Photography Books of 2001
• Sani Festival, Best Solo Exhibition, Greece, 2000
• Special mention: UNICEF Photo of the Year 2001

Museum collections

• Berkeley Art Museum, California, USA
• Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• Durban Museum, South Africa
• Galeria de Arte La Aurora, Murcia, Spain
• Fotomuseum, Munchen, Germany
• George Eastman House, Rochester NY, USA
• Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Johannesburg Art Museum, South Africa
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
• Louisiana Museum, Denmark
• Maison Europene de la Photographie, Paris, France
• Musee Nicephore Niepce, France
• Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark
• Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi, Belgium
• Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
• Museo nazionale Della Fotographia, Italy
• Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
• National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
• Spencer Art Museum, Kansas, USA
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

References

External links

• Roger Ballen Official site
• Roger Ballen in conversation with Darius Himes (SVA November 9, 2009)
• 10-minute video interview with Roger Ballen (2010)
• Roger Ballen at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
• Audio interview with Roger Ballen (2008) plus 25 photographs
• Newspaper article, The Age (Australian)
• Roger Ballen Frieze Magazine. Published on 12/10/09 by Sean O'Toole.