TATE X ROGER BALLEN

Delving into the darkness with photography’s documenter of the absurd. Searching in the recesses of the mind and at the edges of human society, the work of American photographer Roger Ballen has garnered a reputation for the disturbing and the grotesque. This profile of the Johannesburg-based image-maker—part of TateShots, a series of documentaries from the Tate that explores contemporary art and artists—delves into Ballen's private universe and his creative practice, where he has spent many years documenting people living at the fringes of society, and beyond.