Roger Ballen: Shadow Chamber

by Robert A. Sobieszek, Roger Ballen (Photographer)

Roger Ballen (b.1950) challenges the ways in which we perceive the ‘reality’ of photography. His striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms occupy the grey area between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting, theatre and sculpture. This most recent body of work, made between 2000 and 2004, is a product of the decades Ballen has spent working with and photographing people on the fringes of South African society.

Genres: Photography, Art

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant photographer and creator of great photobooks.

http://www.rogerballen.com/

[Joe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ballen is one of the most important photographers of the last 20 years. This book is one of his best. Badass.

[Alberto Sanchez peinador · Rating 5 out of 5]

beautiful and confronting in equal measures..