Carol Ballenger
Carol Ballenger | Photography | Devon
Carol's photographs are in collections in this country and abroad and have been exhibited widely, including for the National Trust, The Dartmoor National Park Authority, The Royal Photographic Society and the Edinburgh Festival. London exhibitions include St. Martin-In-The-Fields, The Barbican Galleries and the Embassy of Japan.
A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and a member of MAKE Southwest, she is a founder member of Arts Live who promote exhibitions, performances and workshops. Many projects have been undertaken in collaboration with poet John Powls.
Her work has always reflected environmental issues and concerns for nature and she sees her photographs as meditations on the landscape. Her first solo exhibition Earth Signs in 1993 looked at the already growing concerns of beach pollution. The Tree of Life, a commission from Arts in Health Southwest, was shown at the Science Museum, London; The New York Hall of Science; used in a report at the 2016 Paris Summit on Climate Change and published in the Larousse Yearbook and scientific journals.
She has used a range of cameras and processes from darkroom to digital, and feels that skills learned in the darkroom have informed her more recent digital work. The Route 66 book, launched at the Photographers’ Gallery in London 2016, used images from Google Earth’s Street View. Kaze, a video documenting a coastal storm, was shown at the 2018 South Korea Biennale.
Books include Dartmoor Dreams; Stone Universe; Dartington Hall, One Endless Garden; Route 66; Open Road for Promiseland; Ashide; The Red Comet and Working with Light.