About The Book
This is the first monograph exploring forty years of innovative Franco-Haitian artist Henry Roy’s sublime photographic practice. Impossible Island brings together photography, text, and video to immerse readers in Roy’s world of interconnected dreams, where time, place, and memory flow together. Roy’s works, spanning his native Haiti, France, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand, Tunisia, and beyond, build a photographic worldview influenced by French modernism, New Wave aesthetics, creolization, and Haitian spiralisme. Publisher’s Info
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About The Artist
Henry Roy was born in 1963 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and moved to Paris with his family at the age of three where he has remained. He studied photography in Paris and has been active since the early 1980s. He published 7 photography books, edited many other publications, and curated art events and exhibitions. He also taught photography in Paris and Haiti. Roy’s career survey Henry Roy – Impossible Island draws on 40-years of recollections and observations as it brings 113 photos taken from 1983-2023 at The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 30 November 2024 – 18 May 2025.
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Specifics
Henry Roy: Impossible Island (Loose Joints & Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2025) | 160 pages | 22 x 25 cm | 75 colour plates | Section-sewn debossed hardcover with tip-on | Accompanying text by Robert Cook. Link.
