Henry Roy | Meet the Artist & Photo Book Signing
Photo Book
$80 RRP
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, 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.
