Born in New York in 1950, Roger Ballen is a unique and influential American artist whose strange and extreme photographic works confront the viewer and challenge them to come with him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own.

For nearly 40 years, Roger has lived and worked in and around Johannesburg, South Africa. His five decade career to date began in the documentary tradition but evolved into the creation of distinctive fictionalized realms that also integrate the mediums of film, installation, theatre, sculpture, painting and drawing. Marginalized people, animals, found objects, wires and childlike drawings inhabit the unlocatable worlds presented in Roger’s images. He describes his works as existential psychodramas that touch the subconscious mind and evoke the underbelly of the ...