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Every once in a while you’ll find someone – usually a journalist, an art critique or some other “intellectual”  - describing certain photographic works as a “freak show”. In my opinion comments like these say a lot about the people who say it and in most cases very little about the work itself or the photographer’s approach. Photographers like Bruce Gilden or Roger Ballen – both very diverse in style – always have to cope with critiques like that. You may like the work or not but I think it’s always good to listen to an artist before condemning them. In this context…
Roger Ballen documentation from German TV
Bruce Gilden about his Coney Island book