Roger Ballen

Broken Bag. 2003. Roger Ballen.

This past semester, my teacher Caroline Allison, showed us Roger Ballen's work.  This was the first time I had ever seen his images and I was enamored by them.  He actually achieves to make me want to shoot black and white photography again, which I never thought anyone or thing could make me want to do again.  You may have or have not heard of him, but regardless there is a new audio interview of him on the lens culture site where he talks about how he started shooting photography and some of the things that recur in his photographs and why they do and you should go listen to it. I love listening to photographers talk about their craft.