During this term break had the opportunity to travel to Belgium and visit the Royal Museum of Fine Arts. On the way out of museum I came across a couple of photograph art works, one of them in specific got my attention and got stuck in my mind. It was Beginning and Ending by Roger Ballen.
Looking at Roger Ballen's works is a cathartic experience, it is impressive how those art pieces convey suffer, melancholic and pain, it immediately challenges the audience to reflect about the life and society. “My photos are not about my own psyche but about the archetype of the human mind. It is a very complicated theme because it is about the philosophy of aesthetics and perception" (Ballen, 2013). In a interview in 2015 to the Guardian Ballen also reffer to his photography as "a mirror of society". My photographs evoke the absurdity of the human condition, but they are also records of a personal psychological journey. For me, photography is a way of looking in the mirror” ( Ballen, 2015).
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