Ruddy (Radcliffe) Roye

Ruddy Roye
Born Radcliffe Roye
December 12, 1969
Montego Bay, Jamaica
Residence Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City
Nationality Jamaican
Education Goucher College (BA)
Occupation
  • Photographer
Years active 2000–present
Website ruddyroye.com

Radcliffe Roye (born 1969), known professionally as Ruddy Roye is a Jamaican documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits, and photojournalism based in Brooklyn. The photographer, who has over fifteen years of experience, is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grass-roots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica. Roye strives to tell the stories of their victories and ills by bringing their voices to social media and matte-fiber paper. Roye is a part of the Kamoinge[1] black photographers collective and was featured in recent documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People a feature film on Black Photographers and photography in America. Ruddy Roye is currently listed as one of The 50 Greatest Street Photographers Right Now.[2]

Early life and education

Roye was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1969. At an early age, Roye's mother, Dorcas Leonie Roye encouraged him to read and participate in speech, drama, and music.[3] At Herbert Morrison Technical High, he participated in band under Snick Glenn and enjoyed his time as a musician.[3] 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."[4] He immigrated to the United States in 1990.[3] In 1998, Ruddy graduated from Goucher College with a bachelor's in English literature where he studied writing and the visual arts.[3][5][6]

Career

Ruddy has worked with publications like The New York Times,[7] Fast Company[8] and BET,[9] Ebony, ESPN Magazine, and Essence and has also worked with local newspapers like New York Newsday. Ruddy honed his skill as a photojournalist by working as an Associated Press stringer in New York covering journalism events. He is also known for his documentation of the dancehall scene all over the world. He has traveled to as far as Brazzaville in the Congo to document how Jamaicans and other dancers use the language of dance as a tool of activism.

Recently, Ruddy began experimenting 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 Pictorial-ism, and the blurry picture as a way of transmitting graphic and emotionally raw imagery that are trapped behind a diffused lens. With painterly abilities, Ruddy uses this diffused methodology to subtly awake the subconscious and expose the isolated figure or vision painted within a rhetorical frame.

Ruddy has also been instrumental in leading the Instagram charge as a photographer showcasing his interest in his community of Bed-Stuy and Brooklyn as a whole. The images he portrays in his 'Black Portraiture' or 'I Can't Breathe' series have been the talking point of numerous forums on Instagram. He was asked to take over the New Yorker[10][11][12] Instagram feed when Hurricane Sandy ravaged the eastern shores in October 2012. Since then, Ruddy has been worked with New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and is also an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University; engaging in conversations with photography students on the rise of Instagram and the changing face of photojournalism. Ruddy's work is widely sought after for exhibitions all over the world. Most recently he was featured on the New York Times Lens Blog.[13][14]

Ruddy was the TIME's Pick for Instagram Photographer of 2016.[15]

Personal life

Roye resides in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.[15]

Exhibitions

  • "When Living is a Protest" Silber Gallery, Goucher College – Towson, Maryland, May 2018[16]
  • "When Living is a Protest"[17] Photoville Brooklyn New York, September 2015 and Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, September 2016.
  • "Dandy Lion"[18] – (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"[19] – Group show – Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival- Toronto, May 2014
  • Ruddy Roye Solo show[20] – Vermont Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College, January 2014
  • "The New street types of New York"[21] – Alice Austen House – Staten Island New York, July 2013
  • "Nigga Beach"[22] – National Biennial Exhibition at the National Gallery, Jamaica, December 2012
  • "J'ouvert"[23] CaribBeing:Portraits of Carnival – MoCADA, Brooklyn New York, September 2012
  • "J'ouvert"[24] – ARTspeak – City Gallery at Chastain Arts Centre – Atlanta, July 2012

References

  1. ↑ Kamoinge is a New York-based group of African-American photographers whose name means "A group of people working together" in Kikuya (an East African language). They have met continuously since 1963 to participate in exhibits, operate a gallery, and publish their works. Individually, the members teach, conduct seminars, and work in commercial photography, motion pictures, and video. In our own words: "Individually and collectively, our work reflects a concern for truth in the world, in society, in ourselves and in art."
  2. ↑ "The Greatest Street Photographers Of All Time". Complex.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Barrett, Rachael (2016-12-27). "Radcliffe Roye: Capturing a a people in Time". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  4. ↑ "Powerful Portraits Tell the Stories of Black America". 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  5. ↑ "Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye '98 – Goucher Magazine". Goucher Magazine. 2015-10-16. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  6. ↑ "Radcliffe Ruddy Roye". Look3. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  7. ↑ Sternbergh, Adam (February 1, 2018). "The Post-Hope Politics of 'House of Cards'". Nytimes.com.
  8. ↑ "While fashion week wraps up at..." Fast Company.
  9. ↑ "A Taste of Summer: 15 Must-Go Events".
  10. ↑ Yorker, The New (October 30, 2012). "Sandy in New York: Radcliffe Roye on Instagram". Newyorker.com.
  11. ↑ Rosenbaum, Lisa (July 15, 2014). "Extreme Exercise and the Heart". Newyorker.com.
  12. ↑ "This Week". Newyorker.com. July 20, 2014.
  13. ↑ "13 images that show Afropunk Fest's power". Ew.com.
  14. ↑ "Ruddy Roye from Iraqi Kurdistan: Among the Names of the Dead". Readingthepictures.org.
  15. 1 2 "Here is TIME's Instagram Photographer of 2016". Time.com. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  16. ↑ Harris, Tyler (2018-05-21). "Ruddy Roye's When Living is a Protest @ Silber Gallery". The Goucher Eye. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  17. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 13, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity - Museum of Contemporary Photography". Mocp.org.
  19. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2015.
  20. ↑ "Ruddy Roye". Seven Days.
  21. ↑ "THE NEW STREET TYPES OF NEW YORK - Alice Austen House". Aliceausten.org.
  22. ↑ Limited, Jamaica Observer. "Pictures with purpose". Jamaica Observer.
  23. ↑ ""Portraits of Carnival" featuring Ray Llanos & Ruddy Roye". Arcthemagazine.com.
  24. ↑ "ARTSpeak: Radcliffe Roye's J'ouvert at City Gallery at Chastain - BURNAWAY". Burnaway.org.
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