Henry Roy | Meet the Artist & Photo Book Signing

Henry Roy Wresters, Dakar, Senegal 2016 (detail).
Henry Roy Wresters, Dakar, Senegal 2016 (detail).
Henry Roy Wresters, Dakar, Senegal 2016.

Henry Roy Wrestlers, Dakar, Senegal 2016. Inkjet print on Baryta paper, 113 x 164 cm. With kind permission of the artist. © Henry Roy.

Henry Roy | Meet the Artist & Photo Book Signing

Henry Roy will discuss his artistic practice with AGWA Curator Robert Cook. Following the artist talk, join Henry Roy for a book signing.

Drinks on arrival, cash bar to follow. Refreshments provided. Balaeric sounds by local DJ Mitchell Jay.

About the exhibition
In a world-first, legendary photographer Henry Roy will hold his first survey at The Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Henry Roy – Impossible Island draws on 40-years of recollections and observations as it brings together 113 photos taken from 1983 to 2023. The images were shot in places such as his native Haiti, Ibiza, Paris, Dakar, Cameroon, Normandy, Marrakesh, Thailand, and the Ivory Coast.

Impossible Island channels the many influences that have shaped Roy’s artistic journey including his exile from his homeland of Haiti to his love of literature and passion for New Wave French cinema.

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The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication published by AGWA in collaboration with Loose Joints Publishing. The 160-page hardcover publication features full-colour plate atmospheric imagery from the exhibition, poetic texts by artist Henry Roy and an essay by AGWA Curator Robert Cook.

Henry Roy, Self portrait, Saint Vincent 2011
Henry Roy Self portrait, Saint Vincent, France 2011
inkjet print on Baryta paper, 40 x 60 cm
with kind permission of the artist
© Henry Roy

 

About Henry Roy

Art photographer and writer

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1963, Henry Roy is a photographer and writer. He emigrated to France with his family when he was three years old for political reasons. He studied photography in Paris, after which he worked as a photojournalist and published, in 1996, a book of black-and-white studio portraits of Black personalities from different backgrounds, titled Regards Noirs (Dagorno & L'Harmattan).

Henry Roy uses intuition to trace his quest for identity in our world. His vision is the result of a blend of reminiscence, fantasy, and sensations captured throughout his daily life, in an animistic relationship with his environment. Henry Roy has continued this dreamy poetic journal for several decades as a sensorial and mental biography.

His work has been displayed in exhibitions in Paris, London, New-York, Maastricht, Arnhem, Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, Zürich, and he has published numerous portraits, lifestyle series, and personal texts in international magazines such as Vogue Paris, Purple Journal, Purple Fashion, Air France Magazine, AD, W Magazine, Harper's Bazaar UK, Artreview, M Le Monde, L'Officiel Voyage, Apartamento, Hobo, and IntranQu'îllités, to name a few.

He has published six individual photography books, edited many other publications, and curated art events and exhibitions. He has also taught photography in Paris and Haiti. He lives and works mostly in Paris.

On Saturday 27 August, the Gallery is open 10am-3pm only as we prepare for the AGWA Foundation Gala supporting women in the arts. Some exhibition access will be disrupted with two Tracks We Share ground floor galleries closed. AGWA Rooftop bar will be closed, reopening at 2pm Sunday. Details