Roger Ballen ’A Good Picture Comes From Nowhere’ | TateShots

An American who has lived in South Africa for the past thirty years, Ballen began his career as a geologist. He is now one of the most important and influential photographic artists of the 21st century. Renowned for his striking extremely visceral black and white photographs, he has a style he himself describes as ‘documentary fiction’, blending stark reality and set design. In this episode Roger Ballen appears to take us on a journey deep inside the Earth’s core to explore of the shadow side of the mind a