Henry Roy

Henry Roy (born 1963 in Port-au-Prince, Haïti) 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 was displayed exhibitions in Paris, London, New-York, Maastricht, Arnhem, Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, Zürich, and he 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 published several individual photography books, edited many other publications, and curated art events and exhibitions. He also taught photography in Paris and Haiti.