Outlands musicfilm Chris Killip describes it as

Chris Killip describes it as one of the most engaging bodies of contemporary work

Mikhailov discovers beauty amidst the dreariness and absurdity of the everyday in a provincial town in a crumbling empire

And photography is an act of violence

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Outlands musicfilm Chris Killip describes it asHardcover First Edition Published by Phaidon, 2001. 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, Ballens photography moved on in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their inhabitants: isolated rural whites, scarred by history, in the