Holden Luntz Gallery - 22.04.2025

Dialogues With Great Photographers: Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen is one of the most influential and distinctive voices in contemporary photography. Born in New York and based in South Africa since the 1980s, Ballen’s work has evolved from documentary roots to psychologically charged, surrealist tableaux that blur the lines between photography, drawing, and installation. Over a career spanning more than five decades, his visual language—now widely described as “Ballenesque”—has explored the subconscious, the absurd, and the unsettlingly beautiful.