Roger Ballen was born in New York USA in 1950, he studied Psychology at degree level and moved to South Africa after the age of 20 and began to photograph normal life in small villages of South Africa. He mainly focused on people who had something wrong with them, for example having an embarrassing body, on the other hand he's focus was towards poor people. However his work didn't take off until early 1990's. When he started to do documentary photography (when looking at a photograph could describe the person's appearance, personality, age etc)
Directly I think, as photographer he's different from many other artists because he's showing you what life is like for some people who might not be wealthy or have might have something wrong with them. However the other good thing about him is that he's always takes pictures in black and white, now I personally think that it shows more detail of the person's portrait, because more color brings more distraction to the image
Directly I think, as photographer he's different from many other artists because he's showing you what life is like for some people who might not be wealthy or have might have something wrong with them. However the other good thing about him is that he's always takes pictures in black and white, now I personally think that it shows more detail of the person's portrait, because more color brings more distraction to the image
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