Henry Roy: Impossible Island

About The Book

This is the first monograph exploring forty years of innovative Franco-Haitian artist Henry Roy’s sublime photographic practice. Impossible Island brings together photography, text, and video to immerse readers in Roy’s world of interconnected dreams, where time, place, and memory flow together. Roy’s works, spanning his native Haiti, France, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand, Tunisia, and beyond, build a photographic worldview influenced by French modernism, New Wave aesthetics, creolization, and Haitian spiralisme. Publisher’s Info

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Henry Roy - Impossible Island - Bildersturm Blog — © Henry Roy 2025 courtesy Loose Joints / AGWA

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. He published 7 photography books, edited many other publications, and curated art events and exhibitions. He also taught photography in Paris and Haiti. Roy’s career survey Henry Roy – Impossible Island draws on 40-years of recollections and observations as it brings 113 photos taken from 1983-2023 at The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 30 November 2024 – 18 May 2025.

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About The Publisher

Loose Joints is an award-winning independent publishing house based between Marseille and London, founded by Sarah Chaplin Espenon and Lewis Chaplin in 2014. Loose Joints collaborates with leading and emerging artists on contemporary approaches to photography in book form.

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