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”, “