Roger Ballen
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Time: 7pm
Location: BU Photonics Center (PHO206)
8 St. Mary's St, Boston, MA
Green Line: (BU-Central T-stop)
$10 members/ $15 non-members/ $5 full-time students/ Free for students of Institutional Member schools

Roger Ballen was born in New York in 1950. Since 1982, he has been living and taking photographs in South Africa. In 2001, Outland (Phaidon Press) received the Best Photography Book of the Year Award at PhotoEspaña. In 2002, Ballen won the Photographer of the Year Award at the inaugural Rencontres d'Arles Awards. Since 2002, Ballen has had over fifty exhibitions worldwide, including one-man shows at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and Gagosian Gallery in New York. His work is represented in many museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Please join us after the lecture when Mr. Ballen will be signing copies of his newest monograph, Boarding House , published by Phaidon Press.

Image credit: Boarding House, 2008 from the monograph Boarding House. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery

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