Roger Ballen. Animalism

Roger Ballen (born in New York in 1950, Roger has been living in South Africa for over forty years) is one of the world’s greatest and most celebrated contemporary photographers. With Animalism, a research project he has been pursuing for over two decades, Roger explores the deep and often disturbing relationship between human beings and animals.
The images blur the boundaries between human and animal behaviour, questioning that distinction’s very nature: a typically “Ballenesque” theatre in which primeval instincts and the absurd hold sway.
Through surreal compositions and a dark absurdity, Animalism reveals how the animal is both an external presence and an intrinsic part of the human psyche, uncovering the deep connections between civilization and untamed nature.