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Ruddy Roye is a Brooklyn based portrait and documentary photographer, born in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
He uses his camera as a tool which allows him to document the world he sees around.
From New York to New Orleans, from Jamaica to Cleveland, the images he produces speak to the human condition, addressing the myriad  instances of indifference and injustice he witnesses daily. Images that are
often overlooked or misrepresented. Yet the images he produces of events such as the Hurricane Katrina; the aftermath, Black Lives Matter movement, the chronic homelessness, and his own personal project
When Living is A Protest, do not merely exist to capture misery, but also to convey strength, resilience and compassion. Roye’s portraits are frequently produced as a collaboration with the people he photographs
in tandem with text that further humanizes them and attempts to contextualize their exploitation.
Roye is inspired by the raw lives of grass-roots people, poor people, the disenfranchised the “forgotten” people and especially those of his homeland of Jamaica.
He strives to tell the stories of their victories and ills by bringing their voices to social media and the photographic paper.
He is a part of Kamoinge, a collective of African-American photographers, and was featured in the recent documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
(2014), a feature-length film on Black Photographers and photography in America, directed by Thomas Allen Harris. In 2016 Roye was named TIME’s Instagram Photographer of 2016.
Although Roye showcases his work in traditional exhibition environments by posting his images to Instagram (@ruddyroye) he is able to engage with over a quarter of a million followers, bridging the divide between viewer and
collaborator and collapsing the space between artist and audience to facilitate deeper engagement and understanding. “Photography is finding a piece of me in the eyes or essence of everyone and everything I photograph. It has always been a
collaborative effort