Tag: Roger Ballen

For the unknown stranger, judged and contained

In this book, Rory du Plessis enables you to look into the eyes of people who were subject to mental institutions in South Africa and to experience a sanctification of them as individuals. This beautiful protest touches on the slippery issue of anonymity and intimacy without hurting the people pictured.

Bieber and the power to not judge

RESPECT. YOU RECOGNISE it as you look at the children, the dispossessed, the poor, the street-friendly, the felons in Jodi Bieber’s photographs. It derives from the photographer. It’s a source of nutrition infused in how the subject exists in her frame. Curated by Reney Warrington, Rosebank’s Foto.Za gallery […]

Our messy world in a clean bromide

THE SEVENTEEN PRISTINE photographic images by Michael Meyersfeld that comprise his current exhibition, Adaptation would have given French theorist Roland Barthes a run for his money in how they extrapolate on the rhetoric of the world in which we live today. Barthes wrote with a scalpel-like language through […]