[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.
Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over t… - Roger Ballen
Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over t…
- Roger Ballen
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative. - Roger Ballen
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.
The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard place to get to, honestly.… - Roger Ballen
The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard place to get to, honestly.…
Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera. - Roger Ballen
Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.
When you go searching, you never know what you will find. - Roger Ballen
When you go searching, you never know what you will find.
Life on the planet and in our galaxy is so complex, I don't hope to have any substantial effect in it, but if I can touch a few people deep in their … - Roger Ballen
Life on the planet and in our galaxy is so complex, I don't hope to have any substantial effect in it, but if I can touch a few people deep in their …
If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist. - Roger Ballen
If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.
[Photography] tells you that every second in time is different from every other second. You want people to understand that the image in front of them… - Roger Ballen
[Photography] tells you that every second in time is different from every other second. You want people to understand that the image in front of them…
My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand. - Roger Ballen
My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.
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