Email: murray@murrayballard.com
Phone: +44 (0)7775 616031
Instagram: @murrayballard
Murray Ballard (b.1983) is a photographer based in Brighton, UK. His work explores a variety of subjects across several interrelated areas: the environment, social issues, science and technology.
He is best known for his long-term project - The Prospect of Immortality - an investigation of cryonics - the practice of freezing the dead in the hope that future science and technology will be able to bring them back to life. An exhibition of the work was first shown at Impressions Gallery, Bradford and continues to tour both nationally and internationally. In 2016 GOST Books published an extensive monograph of the work, which was shortlisted for the Paris Photo Aperture First Book Award.
His commissioned work includes: a residency at The John Innes Centre, Europe’s largest research centre for the study of crop plants and microbiology, which resulted in - How to Genetically Modify a Tomato and Other Things we Eat - a newspaper publication and pop-up exhibition; a FotoDocument commission to photograph the UK’s renewable energy industry, which was exhibited at the Brighton Photo Biennale; a Photoworks commission, in collaboration with Willis Newson, to make work about the South Downs landscape for the walls of the redeveloped Royal Sussex County Hospital; and in January 2020 he was selected by GRAIN, alongside 10 other photographers, to make new photographic work about the farming community in Lincolnshire for their Rural Projects programme. A book of this work - The Rural Gaze - was published in 2021 by GRAIN Projects.
Earlier this year he completed his Masters in Photography at the University of the West of England.
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Exhibitions
A Place in Change, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton Photo Fringe, 5 October - 17 November 2024
A Place in Change, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, 11-18 July 2024
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 18 June - 18 August 2024
MA Photography Showcase, Arnolfini, Bristol, 7-12 June 2024
The New Immortals, University of Sussex, 15 April - 17 May 2024
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, 16 March - 30 June 2024
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2 June - 17 September 2023
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Muse San Domenico, Forlì, 17 September 2022 - 8 January 2023
Around the Stump (pop-up exhibition with GRAIN Projects), Boston, 17 April 2021
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 13 September 2019-2 February 2020
Portrait of Britain Vol.2, British Journal of Photography, J C Decaux screens Nationwide, September 2019
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, MMCA, Gwacheon, South Korea, 18 October 2018 – 17 February 2019
The Prospect of Immortality, Brave New World, Leiden, Netherlands, November 2018
The Prospect of Immortality, Breda Photo Festival, Netherlands, 5 September – 21 October 2018
The Prospect of Immortality, SI Fest, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy, 14 – 30 September 2018
The Prospect of Immortality, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, 31 March – 9 June 2018
The Prospect of Immortality, Festival Circulation(s), Le Centquatre-Paris, Paris, 17 March – 6 May 2018
Still Searching: Fluid Body, Athens Photo Festival, The Benaki Museum, Athens, 14 June – 30 July 2017
The Prospect of Immortality, Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 March – 30 April 2017
Heaven on Earth, DongGang Museum of Photography, South Korea, 15 July – 25 September 2016
Temptation of Immortality, Przemiany Festival, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, 1-4 September 2016
About Time, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, 14 May – 20 August 2016
The New Immortals, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, 20 February – 20 March 2016
Beyond Evidence, Format Festival, Quad, Derby, 13 March – 7 June 2015
One Planet City: Land Use & Wildlife, FotoDocument, Brighton Photo Biennial, Foredown Tower, Portslade, 2014
The Shot I Never Forgot, Brighton Photo Fringe, Vantage Point, Brighton, 2014
The Prospect of Immortality, Transitio_mx 05, Centro Cultural de Espana, Mexico City, Mexico, 2013
Moral Holiday, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 26 October 2012 – 12 January 2013
The World in London, curated by The Photographers’ Gallery, Victoria Park, London, 2012
FotoRenewables: Mixed Renewables in the UK, FotoDocument, Brighton Station, 2012
Arts Forum 2.0, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton, 2012
The Prospect of Immortality, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 10 June – 17 September 2011
One Week in Moscow, Brighton Photo Fringe, Marwood Studios, Brighton, October 2010
Lost in Transit, Vyner Street Gallery, London, 24 November – 3 December 2009
Lost in Transit, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 26 June – 21 August 2009
Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed ’08, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2008
Summer Show ’08, Host Gallery, London, 2008
Human Endeavour, Brighton Photo Fringe, Bellis Gallery, Brighton, October – November 2008
A Series of Investigations, (in)difference, Working Rooms, London, 2008
(in)difference, La Viande Gallery, London, 2007
Degree Show, University of Brighton, June 2007
Triptych, Molholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, 2006
Triptych, University of Brighton, 2006
Books
The Rural Gaze, GRAIN Projects, 2021
HUMANS: Photographs That Make You Think, Henry Carroll, Abrams Image, 2021
Prix Pictet 08: Hope, teNeues, 2019
Portrait of Britain Vol 2, Hoxton Mini Press, 2019
Civilisation: The Way We Live Now, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2018
To Infinity And Beyond, Breda Photo & The Eriskay Connection, 2018
The Future Starts Here, V&A Publishing, 2018
The Prospect of Immortality, GOST, 2016
The Bigger Picture, Impressions Gallery, 2015
FORMAT 15 Evidence, QUAD/FORMAT, 2015
Flash Forward Tenth, The Magenta Foundation, 2014
Exhibiting Photography (2nd edition),
Focal Press, Shirley Read – On Being Curated For The First Time, 2014
9213, University of Brighton, 2013
How to Genetically Modify a Tomato and Other Things We Eat, British Science Association, 2011
One Week in Moscow, self-published with
Gabriella Rizzello, 2010
Flash Forward 2009, The Magenta Foundation, 2009
Awards, Commissions
and Grants
Photoworks Graduate Issue, 2024
Palm* Photo Prize, Shortlisted, 2024
LensCulture Art Photography Awards, Finalist, 2024
Freelands Foundation Emergency Fund, 2020
GRAIN, Rural Projects Commission, 2020
British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Britain, Winner, 2019
Photoworks, 3Ts Hospital Redevelopment Public Art Programme, 2018
Prix Pictet Hope, nominated, 2019
Foam Paul Huf Award, nominated, 2017
Paris Photo Aperture Foundation First Book Award, shortlisted, 2016
FotoDocument One Planet City Commission, 2014
Mack First Book Award, nominated, 2012
Arts Council England Grant, 2011
FotoDocument Commission, 2011
One to Watch, British Journal of Photography, 2011
Reviewer Prize, FotoBook Festival, Kassel, 2010
too much chocolate + Kodak Film Grant, 2010
Flash Forward Winner, The Magenta Foundation, 2009
Arts Council England Grant (Group), 2008
Tom Buckeridge Photography Prize, University of Brighton, 2007
Nagoya University Student Arts Award, 2007
Seoul National University Student Award, 2007
South Square Trust Award, 2006
Talks
Cultivating Change: Unseen Stories of Land, Identity, and Resilience, Photo Fringe Symposium, University of Sussex, 16 November 2024
Varndean College, Brighton, 25 October 2024
Phoenix Art Space, Brighton Photo Fringe, 6 October 2024
University of the West of England, 26 January 2024
Bath Spa University, 10 January 2024
Varndean College, Brighton, 27 September 2023
Varndean College, Brighton, 6 March 2023
The Northern School of Art, 17 October 2022
Varndean College, Brighton, 13 October 2021
The Rural Gaze, Symposium, GRAIN Projects, 21 May 2021
London College of Communication, 13 November 2019
Varndean College, Brighton, 9 October 2019
Brave New World, Leiden, 9 November 2018
In conversation with Christian Gattinoni,
SI Fest, Savignano sul Rubicone, 16 September 2018
Breda Photo Festival, 8 September 2018
University of Brighton, 23 May 2018
Brighton and Hove Camera Club, 10 April 2018
Plymouth University, 27 September 2017
Varndean College, Brighton, 20 September 2017
British Science Festival, Brighton, 9 September 2017
Miniclick with Chris Nunn, The Brunswick, Leeds, 29 June 2017
Photobook Show, The Brighton Studio, 5 May 2017
Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 March 2017
University of Portsmouth, 7 February 2017
Falmouth University, 3 November 2016
Bath Spa University, 1 November 2016
University of the West of England, Bristol, 19 October 2016
Impressions Gallery Photobook Fair, Bradford, 15 October 2016
University of Brighton, 16 June 2016
Miniclick: On Science, The Old Market, Brighton, 15 June 2016
Magnum Professional Practice, Magnum Print Room, London, 4 June 2016
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, 26 May 2016
In conversation with Gordon MacDonald and Jim Stephenson, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, 17 March 2016
Miniclick: Soapbox, Now We Are 5, Brighton Unitarian Church, 12 September 2015
Miniclick: Sketchbooks, The Old Market, Brighton, 7 January 2015
NEoN Digital Arts Festival and Dundee Science Festival, Dundee Science Centre, 7 November 2014
One Planet City, FotoDocument, Brighton Photo Biennial, 5 October 2014
SICK! Festival, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, 11 March 2014
Brighton Photo Fringe, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, 30 November 2013
Vardean College, Brighton, 27 February 2013
Swansea University, 21 November 2012
Magnum Workshop, Lighthouse, Brighton, 31 October 2012
Death Bites: More About Mortality, Southbank Festival of Death, Royal Festival Hall, London, 28 January 2012
FotoDocument Launch, Jury’s Inn, Brighton, 15 May 2012
University of Brighton, 29 November 2011
Miniclick, The Old Market, Brighton, 21 September 2011
Norfolk Food Festival, The John Innes Centre, Norwich, 28 September 2011
British Science Festival, Bradford, 13 September 2011
Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 16 July 2011
Selected Press
Ghosts in the Field, Interview by Sophie Wright, LensCulture, March 2024
Im Labor des ewigen Lebens, Forever Young, Berner Generationen Haus, June 2021
Murray Ballard: Lureland, 2018-2020, Photoworks Photography+ #10 Care, December 2020
Death is Not an Option, Maize, Winter 2019
The Quest for Immortality, The Telegraph Magazine, 4 May 2019
Er is leven na de dooi, De Morgen, 11 October 2018
Noooit meer dood, Pf, number 7, September 2018
Dans les couloirs de l’immortalité, Fisheye Magazine, April-May 2018
La cryogénisation, un désir d’immortalité, Slate France, 15 March 2018
Cryonics in Russia, The Calvert Journal, 3 January 2018
Il a Immortalisé L’Immortalité, Le Matin, 28 November 2017
Landscape Stories #27 Machine, November 2017
Petrified to death, The Mysterium: Unexplained and Extraordinary Stories for a Post-Nessie Generation, October 2017
un lungo e freddo sonno in attesa dell’eternità, Pagina99, 1 September 2017
Perdiz #8 Contributors Interview, 31 May 2017
The Opposite of Dying, Perdiz, Issue #8, March 2017
Heaven freezes over: how the cryonics business promises eternal life, The Guardian, 22 November 2016
Review: The Prospect of Immortality by Lesley A. Martin, The Photobook Review 011/Fall 2016
The End of Death, Ernest Journal no.5, August 2016
A visual tour of the weird world of the cryogenically frozen, New Scientist, 29 June 2016
Ark of the immortals: The future-proof plan to freeze out death, New Scientist, 29 June 2016
Murray Ballard’s Look at Contemporary Cryonics, PDN, 10 June 2016
This Photographer Spent a Decade Photographing Cryonics Enthusiasts, Vice, 7 June 2016
Freeze Your Body, Live Forever (or Die Trying), Fotografia Magazine, 10 May 2016
Frozen in Time, Professional Photography, Issue 8, May 2016
What Exactly Is Life After Death if You’re a Cryonicist? Slate, 27 April 2016
Photoworks Ideas Series Interview, Photoworks, 12 April 2016
Keep me on ice until later, the chilling tale of people who want to come back from the dead, Telegraph Review, 27 March 2016
A Small Voice Podcast 23, March 2016
Murray Ballard Cryonic investigator, Viva Brighton, The Mind Issue #37, March 2016
“Cette Vision de lat Médecine me Terrifie”, 6 Mois, 23 April 2015
Murray Ballard – One-planet photographer, Viva Brighton, April 2015
The Miniclick Highlights Show - Ep.1, Miniclick Podcast, January 2015
The Prospect of Immortality, To The Best Of Our Knowledge Presents: Death (a five-part series), November 2014
Mull it Over interview, Mull it Over, November 2014
Murray Ballard: UK Renewable Energy, Let's Be Brief, August 2014
The Prospect of Immortality, Esquire Russia, October 2014
FotoDocument: One Planet City, Photoworks Issue 21: Collaboration, 2014
Les bricoleurs de l'immortalité, Le Monde, February 2014
Frozen Immortality, The Story, September 19, 2013
Les Givrés du Futur (The Frosted Future), 6 Mois, Printemps Été 2013
One Week in Moscow, Another Escape Vol. 1, Spring 2013
Moral Holiday, Exhibition Review, Art Monthly No.362 Dec-Jan 2012-13
Die Eismenschen (The Icemen), GEO thema 03, 2012
Kaltblütig (Cold-blooded), Dummy 36 Leben (Live), 2012
We Want to Come Back from the Dead, Marie Claire, August 2012
The Prospect of Immortality, Hotshoe, April-May 2012
The Prospect of Immortality, Wired Taiwan, 2012
Cryonics Photos Delve Into the Frozen World of the Immortality Faithful, Wired, 10 May 2012
The Prospect of Immortality, GQ Korea, February 2012
The Chilling Facts of Cryonics, GQ Australia, Oct-Nov 2011
Frozen: The Prospect of Immortality, SeeSaw Issue #14, 2011
Waiting for the Future, Wired UK, Sep 2011
Cryonics: the chilling facts, The Independent, 27 July 2011
The Prospect of Immortality, British Journal of Photography, July 2011
My Best Shot, The Guardian G2, 15 August 2011
Il Gelo In Una Stanza (The Frost in the Room), IL (Intelligence in Lifestyle), Jan 2010
Never Say Die, Guardian Weekend, 7 November 2009
Die Eismenschen (The Icemen), GEO, April 2010
Cryonics: The Prospect of Immortality, YVI magazine No.3, 2009
Minus 197°C, 8 issue 24, Autumn 2008
Text
Frozen in time
On being curated for the first time
9213 interview
Impressions Gallery Q&A
The Prospect of Immortality
All images and text
© Murray Ballard, 2023
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Back
Email: murray@murrayballard.com
Phone: +44 (0)7775 616031
Instagram: @murrayballard
Murray Ballard (b.1983) is a photographer based in Brighton, UK. His work explores a variety of subjects across several interrelated areas: the environment, social issues, science and technology.
He is best known for his long-term project - The Prospect of Immortality - an investigation of cryonics - the practice of freezing the dead in the hope that future science and technology will be able to bring them back to life. An exhibition of the work was first shown at Impressions Gallery, Bradford and continues to tour both nationally and internationally. In 2016 GOST Books published an extensive monograph of the work, which was shortlisted for the Paris Photo Aperture First Book Award.
His commissioned work includes: a residency at The John Innes Centre, Europe’s largest research centre for the study of crop plants and microbiology, which resulted in - How to Genetically Modify a Tomato and Other Things we Eat - a newspaper publication and pop-up exhibition; a FotoDocument commission to photograph the UK’s renewable energy industry, which was exhibited at the Brighton Photo Biennale; a Photoworks commission, in collaboration with Willis Newson, to make work about the South Downs landscape for the walls of the redeveloped Royal Sussex County Hospital; and in January 2020 he was selected by GRAIN, alongside 10 other photographers, to make new photographic work about the farming community in Lincolnshire for their Rural Projects programme. A book of this work - The Rural Gaze - was published in 2021 by GRAIN Projects.
Earlier this year he completed his Masters in Photography at the University of the West of England.
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Exhibitions
A Place in Change, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton Photo Fringe, 5 October - 17 November 2024
A Place in Change, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, 11-18 July 2024
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 18 June - 18 August 2024
MA Photography Showcase, Arnolfini, Bristol, 7-12 June 2024
The New Immortals, University of Sussex, 15 April - 17 May 2024
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, 16 March - 30 June 2024
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2 June - 17 September 2023
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Muse San Domenico, Forlì, 17 September 2022 - 8 January 2023
Around the Stump (pop-up exhibition with GRAIN Projects), Boston, 17 April 2021
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 13 September 2019-2 February 2020
Portrait of Britain Vol.2, British Journal of Photography, J C Decaux screens Nationwide, September 2019
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, MMCA, Gwacheon, South Korea, 18 October 2018 – 17 February 2019
The Prospect of Immortality, Brave New World, Leiden, Netherlands, November 2018
The Prospect of Immortality, Breda Photo Festival, Netherlands, 5 September – 21 October 2018
The Prospect of Immortality, SI Fest, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy, 14 – 30 September 2018
The Prospect of Immortality, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, 31 March – 9 June 2018
The Prospect of Immortality, Festival Circulation(s), Le Centquatre-Paris, Paris, 17 March – 6 May 2018
Still Searching: Fluid Body, Athens Photo Festival, The Benaki Museum, Athens, 14 June – 30 July 2017
The Prospect of Immortality, Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 March – 30 April 2017
Heaven on Earth, DongGang Museum of Photography, South Korea, 15 July – 25 September 2016
Temptation of Immortality, Przemiany Festival, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, 1-4 September 2016
About Time, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, 14 May – 20 August 2016
The New Immortals, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, 20 February – 20 March 2016
Beyond Evidence, Format Festival, Quad, Derby, 13 March – 7 June 2015
One Planet City: Land Use & Wildlife, FotoDocument, Brighton Photo Biennial, Foredown Tower, Portslade, 2014
The Shot I Never Forgot, Brighton Photo Fringe, Vantage Point, Brighton, 2014
The Prospect of Immortality, Transitio_mx 05, Centro Cultural de Espana, Mexico City, Mexico, 2013
Moral Holiday, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 26 October 2012 – 12 January 2013
The World in London, curated by The Photographers’ Gallery, Victoria Park, London, 2012
FotoRenewables: Mixed Renewables in the UK, FotoDocument, Brighton Station, 2012
Arts Forum 2.0, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton, 2012
The Prospect of Immortality, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 10 June – 17 September 2011
One Week in Moscow, Brighton Photo Fringe, Marwood Studios, Brighton, October 2010
Lost in Transit, Vyner Street Gallery, London, 24 November – 3 December 2009
Lost in Transit, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 26 June – 21 August 2009
Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed ’08, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2008
Summer Show ’08, Host Gallery, London, 2008
Human Endeavour, Brighton Photo Fringe, Bellis Gallery, Brighton, October – November 2008
A Series of Investigations, (in)difference, Working Rooms, London, 2008
(in)difference, La Viande Gallery, London, 2007
Degree Show, University of Brighton, June 2007
Triptych, Molholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, 2006
Triptych, University of Brighton, 2006
Books
The Rural Gaze, GRAIN Projects, 2021
HUMANS: Photographs That Make You Think, Henry Carroll, Abrams Image, 2021
Prix Pictet 08: Hope, teNeues, 2019
Portrait of Britain Vol 2, Hoxton Mini Press, 2019
Civilisation: The Way We Live Now, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2018
To Infinity And Beyond, Breda Photo & The Eriskay Connection, 2018
The Future Starts Here, V&A Publishing, 2018
To Infinity And Beyond, Breda Photo & The Eriskay Connection, 2018
The Future Starts Here, V&A Publishing, 2018
The Prospect of Immortality, GOST, 2016
The Bigger Picture, Impressions Gallery, 2015
FORMAT 15 Evidence, QUAD/FORMAT, 2015
Flash Forward Tenth, The Magenta Foundation, 2014
Exhibiting Photography (2nd edition),
Focal Press, Shirley Read – On Being Curated For The First Time, 2014
9213, University of Brighton, 2013
How to Genetically Modify a Tomato and Other Things We Eat, British Science Association, 2011
One Week in Moscow, self-published with
Gabriella Rizzello, 2010
Flash Forward 2009, The Magenta Foundation, 2009
Awards, Commissions
and Grants
Photoworks Graduate Issue, 2024
Palm* Photo Prize, Shortlisted, 2024
LensCulture Art Photography Awards, Finalist, 2024
Freelands Foundation Emergency Fund, 2020
GRAIN, Rural Projects Commission, 2020
British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Britain, Winner, 2019
Photoworks, 3Ts Hospital Redevelopment Public Art Programme, 2018
Prix Pictet Hope, nominated, 2019
Foam Paul Huf Award, nominated, 2017
Paris Photo Aperture Foundation First Book Award, shortlisted, 2016
FotoDocument One Planet City Commission, 2014
Mack First Book Award, nominated, 2012
Arts Council England Grant, 2011
FotoDocument Commission, 2011
One to Watch, British Journal of Photography, 2011
Reviewer Prize, FotoBook Festival, Kassel, 2010
too much chocolate + Kodak Film Grant, 2010
Flash Forward Winner, The Magenta Foundation, 2009
Arts Council England Grant (Group), 2008
Tom Buckeridge Photography Prize, University of Brighton, 2007
Nagoya University Student Arts Award, 2007
Seoul National University Student Award, 2007
South Square Trust Award, 2006
Talks
Cultivating Change: Unseen Stories of Land, Identity, and Resilience, Photo Fringe Symposium, University of Sussex, 16 November 2024
Varndean College, Brighton, 25 October 2024
Phoenix Art Space, Brighton Photo Fringe, 6 October 2024
University of the West of England, 26 January 2024
Bath Spa University, 10 January 2024
Varndean College, Brighton, 27 September 2023
Varndean College, Brighton, 6 March 2023
The Northern School of Art, 17 October 2022
Varndean College, Brighton, 13 October 2021
The Rural Gaze, Symposium, GRAIN Projects, 21 May 2021
London College of Communication, 13 November 2019
Varndean College, Brighton, 9 October 2019
Brave New World, Leiden, 9 November 2018
In conversation with Christian Gattinoni,
SI Fest, Savignano sul Rubicone, 16 September 2018
Breda Photo Festival, 8 September 2018
University of Brighton, 23 May 2018
Brighton and Hove Camera Club, 10 April 2018
Plymouth University, 27 September 2017
Varndean College, Brighton, 20 September 2017
British Science Festival, Brighton, 9 September 2017
Miniclick with Chris Nunn, The Brunswick, Leeds, 29 June 2017
Photobook Show, The Brighton Studio, 5 May 2017
Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 March 2017
University of Portsmouth, 7 February 2017
Falmouth University, 3 November 2016
Bath Spa University, 1 November 2016
University of the West of England, Bristol, 19 October 2016
Impressions Gallery Photobook Fair, Bradford, 15 October 2016
University of Brighton, 16 June 2016
Miniclick: On Science, The Old Market, Brighton, 15 June 2016
Magnum Professional Practice, Magnum Print Room, London, 4 June 2016
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, 26 May 2016
In conversation with Gordon MacDonald and Jim Stephenson, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, 17 March 2016
Miniclick: Soapbox, Now We Are 5, Brighton Unitarian Church, 12 September 2015
Miniclick: Sketchbooks, The Old Market, Brighton, 7 January 2015
NEoN Digital Arts Festival and Dundee Science Festival, Dundee Science Centre, 7 November 2014
One Planet City, FotoDocument, Brighton Photo Biennial, 5 October 2014
SICK! Festival, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, 11 March 2014
Brighton Photo Fringe, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, 30 November 2013
Vardean College, Brighton, 27 February 2013
Swansea University, 21 November 2012
Magnum Workshop, Lighthouse, Brighton, 31 October 2012
Death Bites: More About Mortality, Southbank Festival of Death, Royal Festival Hall, London, 28 January 2012
FotoDocument Launch, Jury’s Inn, Brighton, 15 May 2012
University of Brighton, 29 November 2011
Miniclick, The Old Market, Brighton, 21 September 2011
Norfolk Food Festival, The John Innes Centre, Norwich, 28 September 2011
British Science Festival, Bradford, 13 September 2011
Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 16 July 2011
Selected Press
Ghosts in the Field, Interview by Sophie Wright, LensCulture, March 2024
Im Labor des ewigen Lebens, Forever Young, Berner Generationen Haus, June 2021
Murray Ballard: Lureland, 2018-2020, Photoworks Photography+ #10 Care, December 2020
Death is Not an Option, Maize, Winter 2019
The Quest for Immortality, The Telegraph Magazine, 4 May 2019
Er is leven na de dooi, De Morgen, 11 October 2018
Noooit meer dood, Pf, number 7, September 2018
Dans les couloirs de l’immortalité, Fisheye Magazine, April-May 2018
La cryogénisation, un désir d’immortalité, Slate France, 15 March 2018
Cryonics in Russia, The Calvert Journal, 3 January 2018
Il a Immortalisé L’Immortalité, Le Matin, 28 November 2017
Landscape Stories #27 Machine, November 2017
Petrified to death, The Mysterium: Unexplained and Extraordinary Stories for a Post-Nessie Generation, October 2017
un lungo e freddo sonno in attesa dell’eternità, Pagina99, 1 September 2017
Perdiz #8 Contributors Interview, 31 May 2017
The Opposite of Dying, Perdiz, Issue #8, March 2017
Heaven freezes over: how the cryonics business promises eternal life, The Guardian, 22 November 2016
Review: The Prospect of Immortality by Lesley A. Martin, The Photobook Review 011/Fall 2016
The End of Death, Ernest Journal no.5, August 2016
A visual tour of the weird world of the cryogenically frozen, New Scientist, 29 June 2016
Ark of the immortals: The future-proof plan to freeze out death, New Scientist, 29 June 2016
Murray Ballard’s Look at Contemporary Cryonics, PDN, 10 June 2016
This Photographer Spent a Decade Photographing Cryonics Enthusiasts, Vice, 7 June 2016
Freeze Your Body, Live Forever (or Die Trying), Fotografia Magazine, 10 May 2016
Frozen in Time, Professional Photography, Issue 8, May 2016
What Exactly Is Life After Death if You’re a Cryonicist? Slate, 27 April 2016
Photoworks Ideas Series Interview, Photoworks, 12 April 2016
Keep me on ice until later, the chilling tale of people who want to come back from the dead, Telegraph Review, 27 March 2016
A Small Voice Podcast 23, March 2016
Murray Ballard Cryonic investigator, Viva Brighton, The Mind Issue #37, March 2016
“Cette Vision de lat Médecine me Terrifie”, 6 Mois, 23 April 2015
Murray Ballard – One-planet photographer, Viva Brighton, April 2015
The Miniclick Highlights Show - Ep.1, Miniclick Podcast, January 2015
The Prospect of Immortality, To The Best Of Our Knowledge Presents: Death (a five-part series), November 2014
Mull it Over interview, Mull it Over, November 2014
Murray Ballard: UK Renewable Energy, Let's Be Brief, August 2014
The Prospect of Immortality, Esquire Russia, October 2014
FotoDocument: One Planet City, Photoworks Issue 21: Collaboration, 2014
Les bricoleurs de l'immortalité, Le Monde, February 2014
Frozen Immortality, The Story, September 19, 2013
Les Givrés du Futur (The Frosted Future), 6 Mois, Printemps Été 2013
One Week in Moscow, Another Escape Vol. 1, Spring 2013
Moral Holiday, Exhibition Review, Art Monthly No.362 Dec-Jan 2012-13
Die Eismenschen (The Icemen), GEO thema 03, 2012
Kaltblütig (Cold-blooded), Dummy 36 Leben (Live), 2012
We Want to Come Back from the Dead, Marie Claire, August 2012
The Prospect of Immortality, Hotshoe, April-May 2012
The Prospect of Immortality, Wired Taiwan, 2012
Cryonics Photos Delve Into the Frozen World of the Immortality Faithful, Wired, 10 May 2012
The Prospect of Immortality, GQ Korea, February 2012
The Chilling Facts of Cryonics, GQ Australia, Oct-Nov 2011
Frozen: The Prospect of Immortality, SeeSaw Issue #14, 2011
Waiting for the Future, Wired UK, Sep 2011
Cryonics: the chilling facts, The Independent, 27 July 2011
The Prospect of Immortality, British Journal of Photography, July 2011
My Best Shot, The Guardian G2, 15 August 2011
Il Gelo In Una Stanza (The Frost in the Room), IL (Intelligence in Lifestyle), Jan 2010
Never Say Die, Guardian Weekend, 7 November 2009
Die Eismenschen (The Icemen), GEO, April 2010
Cryonics: The Prospect of Immortality, YVI magazine No.3, 2009
Minus 197°C, 8 issue 24, Autumn 2008
Text
Frozen in time
On being curated for the first time
9213 interview
Impressions Gallery Q&A
The Prospect of Immortality
All images and text
© Murray Ballard, 2023
↑
Back