Visit Boarding House, a strange and alluring place in Johannesburg crowded with impoverished workers, transients, children and animals. It has improvised rooms, marked with uninhibited expressions of enchantment and brutality. Objects and inhabitants from Boarding House act as props, which Ballen carefully arranges. He insists that an element of fiction is essential for learning more about the human psyche and about his subjects. This collaboration between an artist and his subjects results in artistic, ambiguous photographs.