Dear Dave Magazine

In recognition of his newly released book, "Boarding House" (Phaidon, 2009), Dear Dave Magazine presents Roger Ballen in conversation with Darius Himes.

All conversations are free and open to the public.

Roger Ballen has lived and worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, for almost 30 years. Born in New York in 1950, he wo...rked as a geologist and mining consultant before starting his photographic career by documenting the small villages of rural South Africa and their isolated inhabitants. His images are both powerful social statements and disturbing psychological studies. Ballen’s work has been shown in important institutions throughout the world and is represented in many Museum Collections such as Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England and Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. Ballen’s book Outland (Phaidon, 2001), was named Best Photographic book of the Year at PhotoEspaña 2001, Madrid, Spain.

Image: Roger Ballen, "Scavenging," 2004, Black and White Photographic Print.Read More

Please join Dear Dave, Magazine as we start off our Conversations Series for 2009-2010. Juergen Teller will speak with Cathy Horyn in light of his upcoming show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery to open on September 10th.

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Teller's work, in books, magazines or exhibitions, is marked by his refusal to separate the commercial fa...shion pictures and his mostly autobiographical un-commissioned images.

Born in Germany, Juergen Teller has lived and worked in London for 20 years. Solo exhibitions include Awailable at Inverleith House, Edinburgh in 2007 and Do You Know What I Mean at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris in 2006. He was included in the important photography survey Click Double Click at Haus der Kunst, Munich 2006. Teller was the recipient of the Citibank Photography Prize 2003 and has published numerous books of his work with Steidl including Tracht, Go-Sees, Märchenstüberl, Zwei Schäuferle mit Kloß und eine Kinderportion Schnitzel mit Pommes Frites and Nürnberg.

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Cathy Horyn has been the fashion critic of The New York Times since 1999. Prior to joining the Times, she was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where she covered fashion and Hollywood. From 1990 to 1994, she was the fashion reporter for The Washington Post. She began her career in 1980 at the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia.

A native of Coshocton, Ohio, she graduated from Barnard College in New York City, and has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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Image Credit:
Octopus on a Bed, Rome, 2008
Courtesy of the Artist
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