Q: As you've increased your personal inputs of drawing, sculpture, and theatre in your photographs has it ever occurred to you that you might leave the film and camera behind someday?
And if not, why not?
A: I do not believe that I will ever leave the camera behind. It has taken nearly forty years of hard work to find a visual style that has allowed me to integrate these other art forms. The aspects of painting, sculpture and theatre in my images are transformed and intensified through the photographic process, alone they would not have the same impact. I am a photographer first, what I produced are photographs, and the meaning that I express in my images is fundamentally photographic.
[Top photograph from Ballen's "Platteland", 1994. Lower photograph from "The Boarding House"].
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