Roger Ballen’s Asylum of the Birds

Roger Ballen’s “Asylum of the Birds”

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/04/slide-show-roger-ballens-asylum-of-the-birds.html#slide_ss_0=1

Roger Ballen grew up in New York City, surrounded by photographs and photographers—his mother was a picture editor for Magnum and a gallerist. He first trained as a geologist, a job that took him to South Africa—where he has lived and worked since the nineteen-eighties— and, he says, accustomed him to digging deep and bringing what he finds to the surface.