I’m excited to announce I’ve been commissioned by GRAIN alongside 9 other photographers to make new work in the rural midlands. I will be continuing the work I started in Boston, Lincolnshire in the wake of the EU referendum. The project will culminate in a new publication and a symposium which will be a platform for sharing work as well as having a dialogue and debating the issues and concerns that have been discovered and raised through the production of the work. I’m in great company, the other commissioned photographers and artists are: Alannah Cooper, Emily Graham, Guy Martin, Leah Gordon, Matthew Broadhead, Navi Kaur, Oliver Udy & Colin Robins, Polly Braden and Sam Laughlin. More info here.
February, 2020
Civilisation: The Way We Live Now opens at the National Gallery of Victoria from 13 September to 2 February 2020. It’s a real honour to be showing a picture from The Prospect of Immortality alongside work by so many photographers I admire: Simon Norfolk, Massimo Vitali, Mitch Epstein, Alec Soth, Katy Grannan, Trent Parke and Pieter Hugo - to name a few. Photo: Tom Ross
September, 2019
Last month I was asked to photograph a cryonics training weekend in Sheffield for the Telegraph Magazine. After a four year break it was really interesting to catch up with the group and meet some new members. The article features some new pictures alongside a few from my original series. Here’s a link to the article online, although most of it is behind a paywall so you will need a Telegraph subscription to see all of it.
May, 2019
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been commissioned by Photoworks to make new work for CONNECT - the 3Ts Hospital Redevelopment Public Art Programme for the Royal Sussex County Hospital - along with Zoe Childerley, Celine Marchbank and Helen Sear. More info here.
June, 2018
The Prospect of Immortality is going on show this weekend in Paris as part of Festival Circulation(s). For the first time I’m exhibiting The Martinot Story (the first chapter of the book), about the retired French doctor Raymond Martinot and his failed cryonics experiment beneath his château in the Pays de la Loire region of France, as well as a selection of other pictures from the broader project.
March, 2018
The Calvert Journal interviewed me about my project ‘The Prospect of Immortality’ and have just published an article specifically about ‘Cryonics in Russia’.
January, 2018
There’s a very generous 24 page feature on The Prospect of Immortality in the new issue of Perdiz magazine accompanied with a great text by Toño Angulo Daneri.
November, 2017
There was an excellent article in The Times earlier this week by Adam Barnard on living with grief and why he and his family started the Rebecca Vassie Trust, which awards bursaries to early-to-mid-career photographers in the UK.
It was a real pleasure to meet Adam, Kelly and baby Audrey last week and take their portrait.
October, 2017
Looking forward to discussing photobooks with Jack Latham, Kirsty Mackay and the guys from Photobookshow this Friday 5 May at The Brighton Studio - doors 6pm, discussion at 7pm, followed by music and free cider. Everyone welcome.
May, 2017
The Prospect of Immortality is going on show at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in North Lincolnshire this weekend, opening on the 31st March and running until the 9th June - the exhibition is a slightly edited version of the original Impressions Gallery show. More info here.
March, 2016
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© Murray Ballard, 2020
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