Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen's Asylum of the Birds

Ben Jay Crossman

Roger Ballen

To mark the publication of his much-awaited new monograph, Asylum of the Birds, photographer Roger Ballen, with director Ben Crossman, has produced this psychologically powerful, unforgettable film that follows Roger into a world synonymous with his photographs, as never before seen on film.

Roger Ballen - A Good Picture Comes from Nowhere

Marie-Therese Hildenbrandt

Roger Ballen

An American who has lived in South Africa for the past thirty years, Roger Ballen began his career as a geologist. He is now one of the most important and influential photographic artists of the 21st century.

Theatre of the Mind

Roger Ballen

The dusty cells underneath the former insane asylum in Rozelle's Callan Park have been silent and empty for decades, a relic of a brutal and less-enlightened era. But it doesn't require much imagination to feel and hear the pain and anguish those walls once witnessed. And now those tiny, terrifying spaces are once again populated. Thankfully, not by the ranks of the rejected and stigmatised but by a series of unsettling tableaux created by US photographer Roger Ballen.