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Georgia Hanias

Review: Roger Ballen and The Struggle of South Africa’s White Poor

Poverty is never pretty. We spend our lifetime trying to keep away from its ugliness and we’re always disgusted and shocked when we come across it. Yet there is something deep within the human psyche that is also drawn to its visual power because it says something about the human condition. Or so claims the […]

April 16th, 2012
Georgia Hanias
April 16th, 2012
By Georgia Hanias
Dresle and Casle, Twins, Western Transvaal, 1993 (Courtesy of Roger Ballen).

Poverty is never pretty. We spend our lifetime trying to keep away from its ugliness and we’re always disgusted and shocked when we come across it. Yet there is something deep within the human psyche that is also drawn to its visual power because it says something about the human condition. Or so claims the American photographer Roger Ballen. He

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