Roger Ballen: End of the Game
The exhibition chronicles the practice of unrestrained hunting which has contributed to the ecological devastation we are currently facing.
Podcast & Video| Roger Ballen in conversation with Tymon Smith | IG LIVE
David Krut Projects and Jonathan Ball Publishers brings you a conversation between artist/photographer Roger Ballen and freelance journalist Tymon Smith hosted on Instagram LIVE on April 22, 2020. This was day 25 of #Lockdown in…
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ROGER BALLEN | LIVE IGTV INTERVIEW WITH ROGER BALLEN AND TYMON SMITH
The David Krut Bookstore and Jonathan Ball Publishers invites you to join Roger Ballen and Tymon Smith in conversation about ‘The World According to Roger Ballen,’ published by Thames & Hudson. The interview between Ballen…
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Book Launch | The World According to Roger Ballen
The David Krut Bookstore, in collaboration with Jonathan Ball Publishers, is pleased to launch ‘The World According to Roger Ballen’ and host a discussion between Roger Ballen and journalist Tymon Smith at 19h30 on Thursday, 19 March 2020, at the Rabbi Cyril Harris Community Centre (RCHCC) – cnr Glenhove Road & 4th Street, Houghton.
The world according to Roger Ballen
The World According to Roger Ballen, coauthored with Colin Rhodes, looks at Ballen’s career in the wider cultural context beyond photography, including his connections with and interest in art brut. It features photographs selected from across Ballen’s career, along with installations created exclusively for an exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, and examples of objects and works from Ballen’s own collection of art brut.
Roger Ballen – Asylum of the Birds
Roger Ballen is one of the most original image makers of the twenty-first century. Asylum of the Birds showcases his iconic photographs, which were all taken entirely within the confines of a house in a Johannesburg suburb, the location of which remains a tightly guarded secret.
Roger Ballen – Dorps
Dorps, The Small Towns of South Africa is about a part of “Old Africa” that is quickly disappearing. From 1982 to 1986, Roger Ballen, an American, traveled widely throughout South Africa, visiting its scattered towns…
Roger Ballen – Boarding House (Hardcover)
“Boarding House” shows an imaginary space of transient residence, of coming and goings, of people without homes, sheltering in an abode that they are using for their immediate survival. The structure is basic and fundamental and it is furnished with objects that are necessarily for an elementary existence. Remnants function here as physical symbols of events that have occurred in this space; broken pieces of a functional reality exist as the leftovers of scenarios that were played out here.
Roger Ballen – Shadow Chamber
Roger Ballen (b.1950) challenges the ways in which we perceive the ‘reality’ of photography. His striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms occupy the grey area between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting, theatre and sculpture.
Photography as Art and Social Commentary
Photography is one of the biggest sections at David Krut Bookstore with names both local and international ranging from Roger Ballen to Nick Brandt and his dedication to wildlife conservancy issues, to Jodi Bieber on identity, to mention a few among many.