Spirits and Spaces creates a world where animals and art brut-like drawings dominate, and humanity is reduced to obscure ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You're A Shooting Star, I'm A Sinking Ship is a mouthy album title, an apt declaration that matches up with Whitney Ballen's ...

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, ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Ballen, when you ask most photographers how they got started, they're likely to tell you about their first camera. Is that true for you too? Ballen: No. My mother worked at the ...

On Tuesday, Roger Ballen, who was in Britain for the opening of a retrospective show of his work at Manchester gallery, gave a talk at Rudolf Steiner House in London. It was a strange event, ...

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 ...