Roger Ballen’s photographs are as much alluring as they are unsettling. For nearly 50 years, Ballen has used photography to explore some of the most upsetting parts of the psyche—and, in that period, ...
Martina Ballen, UNC’s first Black sports administrator, sat down with the N&O for National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
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 caused a storm with his portraits of marginalised and mentally unstable South Africans. Is he merely reflecting a broken society – or exploiting his subjects? Sean O’Hagan meets the ...
Roger Ballen is an American photographer whose dark, eerie images of the South African social landscape have captured international attention. Often focusing on the downtrodden and underprivileged ...
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 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 ...