Artist and Photographer Roger Ballen is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this social documentary photography. From his project ‘Platteland‘. To see Roger’s body of work click on any image.
Orange Free State, 1994
Southern Transvaal, 1986
Central Transvaal, 1987
Dep of Prisons
Orange Free State, 1992
Platteland was born of the profound irony that despite the political privilege apartheid had bestowed on whites, in the physical heart of the land there is inescapable testimony to the failure of the regime even to secure the well-being of the privileged minority.
Many of those people the photographer encounters feel strangled by poverty and preconception, rejected and downgraded. Above all else, most are severely alienated by the radical changes taking place in the society around them.
Northern Cape, 1990
Western Transvaal, 1987
Central Transvaal, 1993
Eastern Transvaal, 1993
Northern Cape, 1991
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By Roger Ballen