DAVID BALLAM

(SOUTH AFRICA)

David Ballam was born and schooled in Johannesburg, South Africa. He first attended university in Cape Town but later moved to Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape. He was introduced to the camera by Obie Oberholzer and in 2004 gained his Fine Art Degree with Honours in photography. David returned to Johannesburg and after a number of years experience in the commercial world of photography he reverted his attention back to his Fine Art roots. Intrigued and inspired by new faces, places, cultures and customs David focuses his attention on taking any opportunity to travel and explore the African landscape, finding and creating images that transcend the subject matter into Fine Art prints.

David will have is debut at Haute Photographie Amsterdam in September 2024, where he will show his latest project ‘The Cattle of Kings’, shot in South Sudan, which captures the essence of both the unique landscape and culture of the Mandari people, for whom their Ankole-Watusi cattle are both the foundation of their social structure and a central axis of their culture.