'Essential reading' - Royal Photographic Society Journal
Introduction by Robert J. C. Young 1. Finding the Core: Early work; Boyhood 2. Digging Deeper: Dorps; Platteland; Outland 3. Refining and Expanding: Shadow Chamber; Boarding House; Asylum of the Birds 4. The Space of the Mind: Leica photographs; Theatre of Apparitions; Ah Rats Notes and epilogue
Roger Ballen is an American-born photographer who has lived and worked in South Africa since the 1970s. His previous award-winning books include Platteland (1994), Outland (2001), Shadow Chamber (2005), Boarding House (2009), Asylum of the Birds (2014) and The Theatre of Apparitions (2016). Ballen's photographs are collected by some of the most important institutions in the world and he has won numerous prestigious awards in photography and filmmaking. Robert J. C. Young is a British postcolonial theorist, cultural critic and historian. He is currently the Dean of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi.