I’ve been a devoted fan of Henry Roy’s photography for ages now. Looking at his recent (if highly overpriced, but I just couldn’t help purchasing it anyway…) book Spirit at Gottlund Verlag just made me even more excited about the surely imminent spring, for Roy always manages to capture a certain warmth in his images, even on the rainiest days. Born in Haiti but raised and based in Paris, many of his personal images are from Africa, and you can sense a certain ease with places that will be unfamiliar to most. But it’s mainly the light, the diffuse softness, the intimacy and warmth in his pictures that make me want to look at his work again and again, especially at the end of a long, long winter.
Books by Henry Roy: Spirit (2010) and Out of the Blue (2009)
Photography by Henry Roy
