English photographer G.R. Ballance, of Menton, England was active in the early 1900s and was part of the naturalist movement. He is known primarily for his platinum prints and while he worked throughout Europe he was most prolific in Switzerland, Italy and England. In 1908, while in Switzerland, he exhibited at the Fifth Annual Exhibition of Photographs of the Worcester Art Museum (UK). Later in 1930 and 1931, while active in the pictorialist’s circles in England, he exhibited at the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society.