{"product_id":"roger-ballen","title":"Roger Ballen","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoger Ballen is one of the most important and influential art photographers today. He is best known for his probing, often challenging images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation, and photography. Through the 1990s he developed a style he describes as “documentary fiction”, and after 2000 the people he discovered and documented living on the margins of South African society increasingly became a cast of actors in his signature aesthetic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents a wealth of the strange and extreme images he makes, confronting the viewer and challenging them to accompany him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoger Ballen was born in New York in 1950 but for nearly 40 years he has lived and worked in South Africa. His work as a geologist took him out into the countryside and led him to take up his camera and explore the hidden world of small South African towns.  His strange and extreme works confront the viewer and challenge them to come with him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roger Ballen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55651520151857,"sku":null,"price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0676\/1191\/8641\/files\/9dac53d0-c314-4d1b-80c7-5ba554493867.jpg?v=1786154774","url":"https:\/\/phtsdr.store\/products\/roger-ballen","provider":"phtsdrstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}