“This Inferno is not under the earth but deep in the human psyche.”

For the first time, Dante's Inferno is published complete with an apparatus that is entirely photographic. The journey through the underworld is signed by Roger Ballen, a visionary geologist of the unconscious who has spent his working life in the darkest reaches of the mind. The project came from an intuition of Didi Bozzini, curator and reader of the Commedia, who saw the surprising affinity between Dante's imagery and the Ballenesque universe.

“The Inferno was built by Dante as a theatre of wonders,” Bozzini observes. “The repeated appearance in the mind of unexpected, disconcerting, frightening or astonishing visions is exactly what holds up the narrative scaffolding of the poem.”