Ruddy Roye

Ruddy Roye
Born
Radcliffe Roye

December 12, 1969
Montego Bay, Jamaica
NationalityJamaican
EducationGoucher College (BA)
Occupation
  • Photographer
Years active2000–present
Websiteruddyroye.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. Roye is a part of the Kamoinge 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 was listed as one of The 50 Greatest Street Photographers Right Now by Complex in 2017.[1][2][3]

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.[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, Ruddy graduated from Goucher College with a bachelor's in English literature where he studied writing and the visual arts.[4][6][7]

Career

Ruddy has worked with publications like The New York Times,[8] Fast Company[9] and BET,[10] 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 "pictorialism," and the blurry picture is said to be his way of transmitting graphic and emotionally raw imagery.

Ruddy has 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 Instagram feed when Hurricane Sandy ravaged the eastern shores in October 2012.[11][12][13][14] Ruddy 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.[15][16] Some of is work has been noted as seeking to change law enforcement's failure to recognize the humanity of Black men.[17][3]

Ruddy was the TIME's Pick for Instagram Photographer of 2016.[18]

Exhibitions
  • "When Living is a Protest" Silber Gallery, Goucher College – Towson, Maryland, May 2018[19]
  • "When Living is a Protest"[20] Photoville Brooklyn New York, September 2015 and Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, September 2016.
  • "Dandy Lion"[21] – (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"[22] – Group show – Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival- Toronto, May 2014
  • Ruddy Roye Solo show[23] – Vermont Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College, January 2014
  • "The New street types of New York"[24] – Alice Austen House – Staten Island New York, July 2013
  • "Nigga Beach"[25] – National Biennial Exhibition at the National Gallery, Jamaica, December 2012
  • "J'ouvert"[26] CaribBeing:Portraits of Carnival – MoCADA, Brooklyn New York, September 2012
  • "J'ouvert"[27] – ARTspeak – City Gallery at Chastain Arts Centre – Atlanta, July 2012

References
  1. "The Greatest Street Photographers Of All Time". Complex.
  2. Richardson, Whitney (June 26, 2013). "Bringing Invisible Stories to Instagram Followers". The New York Times. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  3. "Giving Visibility to the Invisible: An Interview With Photographer Ruddy Roye". Longreads. February 12, 2015. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  4. Barrett, Rachael (December 27, 2016). "Radcliffe Roye: Capturing a a people in Time". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  5. "Powerful Portraits Tell the Stories of Black America". November 8, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  6. "Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye '98 – Goucher Magazine". Goucher Magazine. October 16, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  7. "Radcliffe Ruddy Roye". Look3. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  8. Sternbergh, Adam (February 1, 2018). "The Post-Hope Politics of 'House of Cards'". Nytimes.com.
  9. "While fashion week wraps up at..." Fast Company.
  10. "A Taste of Summer: 15 Must-Go Events".
  11. Yorker, The New (October 30, 2012). "Sandy in New York: Radcliffe Roye on Instagram". Newyorker.com.
  12. Rosenbaum, Lisa (July 15, 2014). "Extreme Exercise and the Heart". Newyorker.com.
  13. "This Week". Newyorker.com. July 20, 2014.
  14. "Taking a Walk With Ruddy Roye, Instagram Activist". American Photo. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  15. "13 images that show Afropunk Fest's power". Ew.com.
  16. "Ruddy Roye from Iraqi Kurdistan: Among the Names of the Dead". Readingthepictures.org.
  17. O'Molloy, Colm. "Ruddy Roye, Instagram photographer". BBC News. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  18. "Here is TIME's Instagram Photographer of 2016". Time.com. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  19. Harris, Tyler (May 21, 2018). "Ruddy Roye's When Living is a Protest @ Silber Gallery". The Goucher Eye. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  20. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 13, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  21. "Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity - Museum of Contemporary Photography". Mocp.org.
  22. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  23. "Ruddy Roye". Seven Days.
  24. "THE NEW STREET TYPES OF NEW YORK - Alice Austen House". Aliceausten.org.
  25. Limited, Jamaica Observer. "Pictures with purpose". Jamaica Observer.
  26. ""Portraits of Carnival" featuring Ray Llanos & Ruddy Roye". Arcthemagazine.com.
  27. "ARTSpeak: Radcliffe Roye's J'ouvert at City Gallery at Chastain - BURNAWAY". Burnaway.org.
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