OUTLAND

First edition: unpaginated,[120 pages], chiefly full page black and white photographs, white paper covered boards, with a matching dust jacket, a very good copy.

Outland is the culmination of almost twenty years work for artist-photographer Roger Ballen and amounts to one of the most extraordinary photographic documents of the late twentieth century. Beginning by documenting the small ‘dorps’ or villages of rural South Africa, Ballen’s photography moved on in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their inhabitants: isolated rural whites, scarred by history, in the process of losing the privileges of apartheid which had provided them livelihoods and sustained their identity for a generation. The results were shocking, both powerful social statements and disturbing psychological studies. Originally published in 2001 and named Best Photographic book of the year at PhotoEspaña 2001
https://www.rogerballen.com/outland/