Monday, once again, I found myself at the International terminal today. This time, I was meeting South Africa artists Roger Ballen and Penny Siopsis with her husband academic Colin Richards (who will be speaking at the forum). Siopsis is a painter, whose work explores ideas of vulnerability – “how an image can relate to power and repression”; similarly, Roger Ballen (although he was born in the United States, lives and practices in South Africa) explores themes of repression by controversially photographing people that live on the peripheries of South African society, in order to create powerful, abstract photography. Was an honour to meet them both. At least today’s pick-up was at 1:30pm!
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