Ruddy Roye

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Ruddy Roye
Born
Radcliffe Roye

(1969-12-12) 12 December 1969 (age 54)
Montego Bay, Jamaica
Education Goucher College (BA)
Occupation
  • Photographer
Years active2000–present
Website ruddyroye.com

Radcliffe Roye (born 1969), known professionally as Ruddy Roye is a Jamaican documentary photographer specializing in photojournalism, including editorial and environmental portraits. [1] Roye is a member of the black photographer collective Kamoinge, and was featured in the 2014 documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People . Roye was listed among Complex's "50 Greatest Street Photographers Right Now" in 2014, [2] and Time honoured him as its Instagram Photographer of 2016. [3]

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Early life and education

Roye was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in 1969. At an early age, his mother, Dorcas Leonie Roye, encouraged him to read and participate in speech, drama, and music. [4] At Herbert Morrison Technical High, he participated in band under Snick Glenn and enjoyed his time as a musician. [4] In an interview, Roye stated that if he has not become a photographer, he "would be a writer, a musician, or a professor in that order". [5] He immigrated to the United States in 1990. [4] In 1998, Roye graduated from Goucher College with a bachelor's in English literature where he studied writing and the visual arts. [4] [6] [7] He relocated to Brooklyn, New York, in 2000. [8]

Career

Journalism

Roye honed his skill as a photojournalist by working as an Associated Press stringer[ further explanation needed ] in New York while covering journalism events.[ citation needed ] He has since worked with publications including The New York Times , [9] Fast Company [10] and BET, [11] Ebony , ESPN Magazine , and Essence .

Roye is also known for documenting Dancehall culture across the world, having traveled as far as Brazzaville in the Congo to document how Jamaicans and other dancers use the language of dance as a tool of activism.[ citation needed ]

In October 2012, Roye was asked to take over The New Yorker 's Instagram account in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. [12] [13] [14] [15] He has also showcased Bed-Stuy (and Brooklyn as a whole) with his 'Black Portraiture' or 'I Can't Breathe' series on Instagram.

Art

Roye has experimented with interpretative photography, preferring to allow the abstract content within the frame to dictate the voice and purpose of the image. His "Elements" series focuses on "pictorialism", and the blurry picture is said to be his way of transmitting graphic and emotionally raw imagery.[ citation needed ]

In 2022 Ruddy Roye was named "Artist-in-residence" for the year at the Cleveland Print Room in Cleveland Ohio where he now currently resides. [16]

Academic work

Roye has taught at New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and Columbia University, engaging in conversations with photography students on the rise of Instagram and the changing face of photojournalism. [17] [18] Some of his work has been contextualized as engaging in the conversation of race in policing and the justice system. [19] [1]

Exhibitions

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  16. ↑ "Cleveland Print Room on Instagram: "The Print Room names Ruddy Roye as 2022 Artist -in-Residence. Ruddy is our first ever yearlong AIR recipient. A new resident to Cleveland, Roye brings his expertise to the Print Room residency in honor of our collaboration that dates back to 2017. Named in 2020 as one of the National Geographic storytelling fellows and a recent Cleveland Foundation Equity in the Arts recipient, Roye will share a studio space with CPR and begin a salon in efforts to build community through photography."".
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