Review by Gerhard Clausing  • October 2025 First Love, 2018 As always, one has to take a very deep dive into people’s psyche, including one’s own, to understand the art of Roger Ballen. His latest publication, Spirits and Spaces , continues his exploration of the human psyche and the ambiguous terrain in which dreams, nightmares, and realities intersect. Ballen has always been a master at presenting universes that are simultaneously intimate and unsettling, and this volume co

Book Review: Roger Ballen: Spirits and Spaces October 12th, 2025 by Michael Ernest Sweet Curious Cat, 2023 (c) Roger Ballen Many photographers work by responding to the world around them. They walk, they look, they frame. They hunt for images already present in the environment — waiting to be noticed, captured, claimed. Roger Ballen does something fundamentally different. He constructs the very worlds he photographs. The spirits, the spaces, the uncanny tableaux — these are n

ANTINOMIES - Writing and Images - by Mauro Zanchi 20/06/2025 School Room, 2003 Among the artists in dialogue in the exhibition Mario...