The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own … - Roger Ballen

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I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

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. It has taken me many years to get to that place and to define it visually.

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Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive. . . Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.

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Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

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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 psyche, by making my personal subjective journey concrete for others, then I am very happy.

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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.

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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 the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.

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