Photographer Roger Ballen is known for his powerful black and white imagery. "I started in black and white from the early days and I like black and white because it's very reduced, it's very abstract, ...

Roger Ballen’s inventive photographs rely on many other media, including drawing and sculpture, to create a new world. “Alter Ego.” From the Asylum series, 2010. Archival pigment print, Collection of ...

The short film ‘Spirits and Spaces’ follows a lone spirit’s journey through a sequence of Ballenesque rooms.

The American, Johannesburg-based Roger Ballen creates worlds. Strange, disturbing, sense-jolting and often whacky, worlds. Places that straddle some indefinable, enigmatic space infused with elements ...

The Inside Out Centre for the Arts is part museum, part educational facility, part art studio, and home to a humanoid rat. Roger Ballen Underworld (2015). Courtesy of the artist and the Inside Out ...

Before the release of his new career-spanning photo book, The House Project, Roger Ballen spoke with American Photo about the existential nature of his work and what he has learned about himself after ...

Entertainment Roger Ballen: Die Antwoord’s freeky friend Published 12:18 PM EDT, Thu August 11, 2016 ...

For artist and photographer Roger Ballen, the space he calls an "asylum" represents both a shelter and a place of insanity. On April 8, Ballen will release a new book entitled Asylum of the Birds, ...

Born in the US, Roger Ballen, the internationally renowned photographer, has lived in South Africa since the 1970s. He gained a cult following for his grotesque, surreal images of white poverty, ...

photo basel 2026 returns as Switzerland’s premier photography art fair, reaffirming its position as the country’s first and only international fair dedicated exclusively to photographic art. The most ...