![]() ![]() A premise that inspired the look of Die Antwoord characters Ninja and Yolandi Visser.įriendsWithYou bubbly character is reinvented for the backdrop of Die Antwoord’s live show Inspired by Jung’s theory of the hidden self, Ballen photographs explore the dark side or the shadow side of human life. Later he began taking photographs as a hobby, capturing images during his travels that he felt were revealing not only of the landscape but also to himself. In this way, his work shares a documentary quality akin to that of Diane Arbus, but with a darker undertone and deeper satirical twist.īorn in New York City in 1950, Roger Ballen grew up around photography as his mother worked at Magnum Photos. As a result, his third book Platteland (1994) created quite a stir at the time by showing a group of people that the Apartheid regime, which was in power at the time, would rather have kept hidden away. To be frank, these people appear in his depictions to be in some shape or form, dysfunctional. ![]() A few years back, traveling through the “Platteland,” which are the rural lands of South Africa, Ballen came across white South Africans who he describes in a video interview as “not being able to cope as well.” “Dresie and Casie, Twins, Western Transvaal” (1993), photographed by Roger Ballen as part of his “Plateland” series.Īdmittedly, the word “freakish” would be politically incorrect to describe many of the people and places Ballen has photographed. ![]()
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