Keywords: Darius Himes with Roger Ballen.jpg en On Monday November 9 2009 The School of Visual Arts in New York City hosted a conversation between Roger Ballen and Darius Himes Here is part of Darius Himes's Introduction to Roger Ballen From any objective viewpoint Roger Ballen operates as a one-man school of photography For more than two decades he has developed a style of image-making that is firmly rooted in the documentary tradition of the great mid-century storytellers but which has consistently taken the notion of a photographic document as a mere starting point for an ever-deepening exploration into the human subconscious Roger Ballen grew up in New York under the familial influence of the Magnum clique of photographers; his mother ran the New York office of the famous agency for many years when he was a child and young Roger considered Henri Bruce and Elliott as so many uncles and tutors He left the City behind ”and the safety of that world ”immediately after university spending 5 years on the road traveling to such far-flung places as Istanbul and Papua New Guinea Eventually he settled in South Africa and found work according to his formal training as a geologist His travels to the back-country of that country and in particular around Johannesburg provided occasion for a continued sustained photographic exploration which his first two published books of photographs bear out REDIRECT http //dariushimes com/pages/photography/roger-ballen-in-conversation/ html More http //dariushimes com/pages/photography/roger-ballen-in-conversation/ html Darius Himes's blog on photography and the Photobook and http //fds duke edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/negar Negar Mottahedeh's page at Duke University and her Blog Negarpontifiles which discusses http //negarpontifiles blogspot com/ Photography Film and Social Media Author Negar Mottahedeh http //fds duke edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/negar Negarpontifiles http //negarpontifiles blogspot com/ 2009-11-09 Negar Mottahedeh http //dariushimes com/pages/photography/roger-ballen-in-conversation/ html Roger Ballen in conversation with Darius Himes SVA November 9 2009 http //dariushimes com/pages/photography/roger-ballen-in-conversation/ html Darius Himes Blog Roger Ballen Darius Himes Photographers |