Roger Ballen is an American artist, who moved
to Johannesburg in the 1980s to work as a geologist. He started his career as a
photographer doing documentary photography but has now moved to what he calls,
“documentary fiction.” Most of his figures are people who belong to the
margins. As an outsider, he is drawn to other outsiders: his oeuvre feature the
poor white people, some of them mentally deranged. His show at Photo Ink
consists of his works from three projects, “Outland”, “