Roger Ballen was born in New York, USA in 1950. Roger Ballen gained a degree in psychology, and then he completed a PhD in Mineral Economics and established himself as a geologist and mining consultant in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1982; this work steered him toward the fringe communities of South Africa and it was here, in the poorest rural villages, he began taking traditional documentary photographs.
I like his photographs because of the roughness of them. Each photograph tells a story which is at first not entirely apparent. These black and white photographs document the human faces of this vanishing world; their strangeness, marginalisation and underlying violence.
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