Spending a night in Roger Ballen’s Boarding House is not for the faint of heart. Since the 1970s, Ballen has built his artistic career upon twisted, soul-wrenching photographs that depict South Africa’s pain and poverty through a distorted, dream-like lens and through his new book, named for an abandoned Johannesburg warehouse-turned-impoverished residence he dubs “the [...]
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Roger Ballen Signing Books at Clic Gallery
November 9, 2009 – 6:52 pm
Tomorrow night, November 10th, from 6-8pm the South Africa-based photographer Roger Ballen will be signing copies of his latest book, Boarding House, at Clic Gallery in New York. Boarding House is being released by Phaidon. For more information visit the gallery’s site.


