Selfportrait is a documentary film about the controversial photographer Roger Ballen. Born and bred in New York, he has lived in South Africa for nearly thirty years. The film sketches his development as photographer and, as a side-theme, the development of South Africa. ‘Selfportrait’ was filmed a few months after Ballen released his book ‘Outland’. Outland is the culmination of almost twenty years work for the artist-photographer and amounts to one of the most extraordinary photographic documents of the late twentieth century.
