# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-ballen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:52:49.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-ballen"
name: "Roger Ballen"
slug: "roger-ballen"
description: "Roger Ballen is an American artist living in Johannesburg, South Africa, and working in its surrounds since the 1970s."
tagline: "American photographer (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_Ballen_video_interview%2C_Bogot%C3%A1_Photography_Biennial_2015_01_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1950-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.115986666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rogerballen.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ballen"
    title: "Roger Ballen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "روجير بالين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ballen"
    title: "Roger Ballen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ballen"
    title: "Roger Ballen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ballen"
    title: "Roger Ballen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ballen"
    title: "Roger Ballen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ballen"
    title: "Roger Ballen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ballen"
    title: "Roger Ballen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Баллен, Роджер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1550279"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump