Nick Ballón
Congregation
- Medium
- Framed print
Joseph Clark Collection · JCC-0029
About the work
Congregation suggests a coming together, inviting attention to the relationships that a photograph can gather within a single frame. Nick Ballón’s broader practice explores identity, belonging and the connections between people and place. The work offers an opportunity to consider how a photographic image can make a shared moment available for sustained looking.
About the artist
Nick Ballón is a British-Bolivian photographer and filmmaker. His practice brings together portraiture, documentary work and commissioned projects, with a sustained interest in identity, belonging and the relationship between people and places. His dual cultural background informs projects that move between personal experience and wider social histories.
Ballón's photographs often attend to the details through which a person or setting becomes distinctive.