Roger Ballen’s inventive photographs rely on drawing and sculpture to create new worlds. Inspired by the sight of hand-drawn carvings on blacked-out windows in an abandoned women’s prison, Ballen started to experiment with using different spray paints on glass and then “drawing on” or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through. The results, which resemble prehistoric cave-paintings, are reflective of Ballen’s thoughts and emotions. Earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual, his work transcends all traditional concepts of photography.