What to look out for at the art fair in the capital.

MR PORTER has teamed up with Photo London to ask some experts from the world of photography (as well as some enthusiasts from our own team) to select their favourite image from the fair. Read about the photograph chosen by Mr Simon Bainbridge, editorial director of British Journal of Photography, below.

Mr Bainbridge is the long-term editor of British Journal of Photography, a leading photography magazine which has been published continuously since 1854. He selects an image by Mr Roger Ballen, the New Yorker whom has documented the margins of South African society since the 1970s, establishing himself in the process as one of the most divisive and influential photographers of his generation.

“Ballen’s work is unquestionably beautifully crafted, yet it has a moral ambiguity, and I think that’s what makes it so intriguing. With Outland, and then the follow-up series Boarding House (from which “Girl In White Dress” is taken), he crossed the line, moving away from the straight documentation of poor, white, rural communities in South Africa’s dorps, to make collaboratively staged tableaux with seemingly vulnerable subjects who were, as Outland’s short introduction explained, “scarred by history, in process of losing the privileges of apartheid which had provided them livelihoods and sustained their identity for a generation”.