MF: this physical place that you commonly refer to as the asylum is contrastingly a place of refuge and at the same time a place of insanity, and you come back to it... RB: I have been working in these type of places for over thirty years. I am not certain what attracts me to… Continue reading Asylum of the Birds: an Interview with Roger Ballen
Author: mikefromperu
Even Dwarfs Started Small
And the sun never goes down. Someone sings i don't sing to be heard or because i know how...in the open, a chicken bites another chicken, a broken voice opens up and sings...i don't sing to be heard or because i know how. And to wake up and have an idea...we'll tear down his favorite… Continue reading Even Dwarfs Started Small
Masquerade
i'll give you a name if you make me a mask, it doesn't have to suit me, if i can lie, i'll have my eye on you and me, a mask where the face becomes the place, a photograph and its effect, i simply want to see something, a starting point where i don't seek… Continue reading Masquerade
And to Think of a Photograph
And to think of a photograph and think of sensitivity and think of William Gedney and think of Emmet Gowin and to hear William saying photography and poetry are very close to capture in a single frame visual forms organized to the point where neither more or less are needed and until it becomes an… Continue reading And to Think of a Photograph