Henry Roy | Meet the Artist & Photo Book Signing

About the exhibition
In a world-first, legendary photographer Henry Roy will hold his first survey at The Art Gallery of Western Australia.

draws on 40-years of recollections and observations as it brings together 113 photos taken from 1983 to 2023. The images were shot in places such as his native Haiti, Ibiza, Paris, Dakar, Cameroon, Normandy, Marrakesh, Thailand, and the Ivory Coast.

Impossible Island channels the many influences that have shaped Roy’s artistic journey including his exile from his homeland of Haiti to his love of literature and passion for New Wave French cinema.

Photo Book | $80 RRP
The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication published by AGWA in collaboration with Loose Joints Publishing. The 140-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.

Welcome drink on arrival, cash bar. Refreshments served.

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.
Roy’s work has been published in major international journals 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.
He has produced six artist books since 1996: Regards Noir, Out of the Blue, Spirit, Mirage, Superstition and Ibiza Memories.

Image Credit: Henry Roy Wresters, Dakar, Senegal 2016. Inkjet print on Bartya paper, 113 x 164 cm with kind permission of the artist. © Henry Roy.

Host or Publisher Art Gallery of WA