Roger Ballen – Boarding House (First Edition Hardcover)

R1,400.00

A journey into the theatrical and the gritty: The 2009 first edition of Boarding House.

In Boarding House, Roger Ballen creates a powerful, unified vision of a world that is both real and imaginary. Set within a makeshift dwelling in Johannesburg, these images are deeply layered with drawings, scavenged objects, and human presence, blurring the line between documentary and fiction.

This original Phaidon hardcover is a mandatory addition for collectors looking to complete the “big three” of Ballen’s early-2000s monographs.

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A journey into the theatrical and the gritty: The 2009 first edition of Boarding House.

In Boarding House, Roger Ballen creates a powerful, unified vision of a world that is both real and imaginary. Set within a makeshift dwelling in Johannesburg, these images are deeply layered with drawings, scavenged objects, and human presence, blurring the line between documentary and fiction.

This original Phaidon hardcover is a mandatory addition for collectors looking to complete the “big three” of Ballen’s early-2000s monographs.

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