Roger Ballen is a photographer and artist born in New York City, New York, USA in 1950. He has lived in Johannesburg since the 1970s. Beginning by documenting the small dorps or villages of rural South Africa, Ballen starting photographing the inhabitants of these places in the late 1980s and early 1990s.[1] His fifth book 'Outland' produced by Phaidon Press in 2001 was the result.