The Illuminated Man, 1968 © Duane Michals

Smriti Azad at Protest at Shaheed Minor, Shaheed Minor, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1994, courtesy of Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World © Shahidul Alam

“Hazelwood #2 (after Steven Siegel),” 2014, from Alex Prager’s new retrospective monograph, Silver Lake Drive. “My work is like film stills that are films that have never been made,” Prager says

All images are © Roger Ballen from the book Ballenesque – Roger Ballen: A Retrospective published by Thames & Hudson and the accompanying exhibition on view at Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles from April 26 to June 15, 2018.