Outland

Roger Ballen (b.1950) has lived and worked in Johannesburg, South Africa for more than 30 years. Born in New York, he worked as a geologist and mining consultant before starting his photographic career by documenting the small villages of rural South Africa and their isolated inhabitants. Outland, winner of Best Photography Book of the Year at Photo España in Madrid, Spain, was first published by Phaidon in 2001, followed by critically acclaimed Shadow Chamber and Boarding House (Phaidon, 2005 and 2008). Ballen is represented by Gagosian Gallery. The seminal photobook from photographer and artist Roger Ballen, first published in 2001 and now available in an expanded edition with more than 25 never-before-seen images. His black-and-white photographs of South Africans on the fringe of society are powerful psychological studies: disturbing, exciting and impossible to forget. Powerful photographs of South Africans on the fringe of society|"Compelling, powerful, haunting." Guardian