It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

- Roger Ballen

Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over t…

- Roger Ballen

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

- Roger Ballen

Life on the planet and in our galaxy is so complex, I don't hope to have any substantial effect in it, but if I can touch a few people deep in their …

- Roger Ballen

When you go searching, you never know what you will find.

- Roger Ballen

The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard place to get to, honestly.…

- Roger Ballen

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

- Roger Ballen

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

- Roger Ballen

[Photography] tells you that every second in time is different from every other second. You want people to understand that the image in front of them…

- Roger Ballen