Roger Ballen is a photographer born in New York in 1950, living in South Africa for over 30 years, where he created the majority of his body of work. His strange and extreme works confront the viewer and challenge them to come with him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own. His photographs maintain unity as they are associated with the grotesque aesthetic, as well as impregnated with surrealism. His compositions are very formal. They are simple; they are clear. But inside there is a theatre, a complexity that reflects the human condition in some way.