Ruddy Roye
{{Short description|Jamaican photographer (born 1969)}}
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| birth_place = Montego Bay, Jamaica
| education = Goucher College (BA)
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| years_active = 2000–present
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Radcliffe Roye (born 1969), known professionally as Ruddy Roye is a Jamaican documentary photographer specializing in photojournalism, including editorial and environmental portraits.{{Cite web|url=https://longreads.com/2015/02/12/giving-visibility-to-the-invisible-an-interview-with-photographer-ruddy-roye/|title=Giving Visibility to the Invisible: An Interview With Photographer Ruddy Roye|date=2015-02-12|website=Longreads|language=en|access-date=2018-12-15}} 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,{{cite web|last=Wood|first=Jennifer|date=January 15, 2014|title=The 50 Greatest Street Photographers Right Now|url=http://complex.com/style/2014/01/street-photographers/ruddy-roye|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016033845/http://complex.com/style/2014/01/street-photographers/ruddy-roye|archive-date=October 16, 2014|access-date={{today}}|website=Complex}} and Time honoured him as its Instagram Photographer of 2016.{{Cite magazine|title=Here is TIME's Instagram Photographer of 2016|url=https://time.com/ruddy-roye-instagram/|access-date=2018-01-04|magazine=Time}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Radcliffe-Roye--Capturing-a-a-people-in-Time_84853?profile=1056|title=Radcliffe Roye: Capturing a a people in Time|last=Barrett|first=Rachael|date=2016-12-27|website=Jamaica Observer|access-date=2018-01-05}} At Herbert Morrison Technical High, he participated in band under Snick Glenn and enjoyed his time as a musician. 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".{{Cite news|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2016/11/through-the-lens-ruddy-roye/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112141447/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2016/11/through-the-lens-ruddy-roye/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 12, 2016|title=Powerful Portraits Tell the Stories of Black America|date=2016-11-08|access-date=2018-01-05}} He immigrated to the United States in 1990. In 1998, Roye graduated from Goucher College with a bachelor's in English literature where he studied writing and the visual arts.{{Cite news|url=http://blogs.goucher.edu/magazine/ruddy-roye/|title=Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye '98 – Goucher Magazine|date=2015-10-16|work=Goucher Magazine|access-date=2018-01-04|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.look3.org/radcliffe-ruddy-roye/|title=Radcliffe Ruddy Roye|website=Look3|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-05}} He relocated to Brooklyn, New York, in 2000.{{Cite web|url=https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/bringing-invisible-stories-to-instagram-followers/|title=Bringing Invisible Stories to Instagram Followers|last=Richardson|first=Whitney|date=2013-06-26|website=The New York Times|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-15}}
Career
= Journalism =
Roye honed his skill as a photojournalist by working as an Associated Press stringer{{Explain|date=December 2021}} in New York while covering journalism events.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}} He has since worked with publications including The New York Times,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/magazine/the-post-hope-politics-of-house-of-cards.html|title=The Post-Hope Politics of 'House of Cards'|first=Adam|last=Sternbergh|date=February 1, 2018|website=The New York Times}} Fast Company{{cite web|url=http://blog.fastcompany.com/post/76559613925/fastcocreate-while-fashion-week-wraps-up-at|title=While fashion week wraps up at...|website=Fast Company}} and BET,{{cite web|url=https://www.bet.com/photo-gallery/akata9/a-taste-of-summer-15-must-go-events/1rm97q|title=A Taste of Summer: 15 Must-Go Events|website=BET|publisher=}} 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|date=December 2021}}
In October 2012, Roye was asked to take over The New Yorker{{'}}s Instagram account in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.{{cite magazine|date=October 29, 2012|title=Sandy in New York: Radcliffe Roye on Instagram|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/sandy-in-new-york-radcliffe-roye-on-instagram|access-date={{today}}|magazine=The New Yorker}}{{cite web|last=Rosenbaum|first=Lisa|date=July 15, 2014|title=Extreme Exercise and the Heart|url=https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/extreme-exercise-and-the-heart|website=Newyorker.com}}{{cite web|date=July 20, 2014|title=This Week|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/week-2|website=Newyorker.com}}{{Cite web|title=Taking a Walk With Ruddy Roye, Instagram Activist|url=https://www.americanphotomag.com/taking-walk-ruddy-roye-instagram-activist|access-date=2018-12-15|website=American Photo|language=en}} 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|date=December 2021}}
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.{{cite web | url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CZKvqOcpG04/ | title=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." }}
= 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/24/photos-afropunk-fest-2015-instagram|title=13 images that show Afropunk Fest's power|website=Ew.com}}{{cite web|url=http://www.readingthepictures.org/2013/05/ruddy-roye-from-iraqi-kurdistan-among-the-names-of-the-dead/|title=Ruddy Roye from Iraqi Kurdistan: Among the Names of the Dead|website=Readingthepictures.org|date=May 21, 2013}} Some of his work has been contextualized as engaging in the conversation of race in policing and the justice system.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-30541808/bbctrending-ruddy-roye-instagram-photographer|title=Ruddy Roye, Instagram photographer|last=O'Molloy|first=Colm|work=BBC News|language=en|access-date=2018-12-15}}
Exhibitions
- "When Living is a Protest" Silber Gallery, Goucher College – Towson, Maryland, May 2018{{Cite news|url=https://thegouchereye.com/2018/05/21/ruddy-royes-when-living-is-a-protest-silber-gallery/|title=Ruddy Roye's When Living is a Protest @ Silber Gallery|last=Harris|first=Tyler|date=2018-05-21|work=The Goucher Eye|access-date=2018-07-16|language=en-US}}
- "When Living is a Protest"{{cite web |url=http://www.photoville.com/2015-exhibitions/living-protest/ |title=When Living is a Protest - Photoville |accessdate=2015-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913221200/http://www.photoville.com/2015-exhibitions/living-protest/ |archivedate=September 13, 2015 |df=mdy-all }} Photoville Brooklyn New York, September 2015 and Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, September 2016.
- "Dandy Lion"{{cite web|url=http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2015/04/dandy-lion-rearticulating-black-masculine-identity.php|title=Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity - Museum of Contemporary Photography|website=Mocp.org}} – (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity- group show – Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, September 18 – November 14, 2015 – MOCP Chicago, April – July 2015
- "Pictures from Paradise"{{cite web |url=http://2014.scotiabankcontactphoto.com/primary-exhibitions/1817 |title=Scotiabank CONTACT Photography FestivalPictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography |accessdate=2015-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912233047/http://2014.scotiabankcontactphoto.com/primary-exhibitions/1817 |archivedate=September 12, 2015 |df=mdy-all }} – Group show – Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival- Toronto, May 2014
- Ruddy Roye Solo show{{cite web|url=http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/ruddy-roye/Event?oid=2305555|title=Ruddy Roye|website=Seven Days}} – Vermont Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College, January 2014
- "The New street types of New York"{{cite web|url=http://aliceausten.org/exhibitions/new-street-types-new-york|title=THE NEW STREET TYPES OF NEW YORK - Alice Austen House|website=Aliceausten.org|access-date=October 9, 2015|archive-date=December 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220165024/http://aliceausten.org/exhibitions/new-street-types-new-york|url-status=dead}} – Alice Austen House – Staten Island New York, July 2013
- "Nigga Beach"{{cite web|url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/Pictures-with-purpose_13430828|title=Pictures with purpose|first=Jamaica Observer|last=Limited|website=Jamaica Observer}} – National Biennial Exhibition at the National Gallery, Jamaica, December 2012
- "J'ouvert"{{cite web|url=http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2012/09/portraits-of-carnival-featuring-ray-llanos-ruddy-roye/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305120727/http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2012/09/portraits-of-carnival-featuring-ray-llanos-ruddy-roye/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 5, 2016|title="Portraits of Carnival" featuring Ray Llanos & Ruddy Roye|website=Arcthemagazine.com|date=November 21, 2023 }} CaribBeing:Portraits of Carnival – MoCADA, Brooklyn New York, September 2012
- "J'ouvert"{{cite web|url=http://burnaway.org/podcast/artspeak-radcliffe-royes-jouvert-at-city-gallery-at-chastain/|title=ARTSpeak: Radcliffe Roye's J'ouvert at City Gallery at Chastain - BURNAWAY|website=Burnaway.org|access-date=October 9, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044230/http://burnaway.org/podcast/artspeak-radcliffe-royes-jouvert-at-city-gallery-at-chastain/|url-status=dead}} – ARTspeak – City Gallery at Chastain Arts Centre – Atlanta, July 2012
References
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External links
- [http://www.ruddyroye.com/ Official Website]
- {{IMDb name|7202919}}
- [http://www.stevenkasher.com/artists/ruddy-roye Steven Kasher Gallery]
- [http://216.197.120.164/artistbibliog.cfm?id=8193 Radcliffe Roye] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305041020/http://216.197.120.164/artistbibliog.cfm?id=8193 |date=March 5, 2021 }} on the African American Visual Artists Database
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