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Ruddy Roye

Ruddy Roye is a documentary photographer who was born in Jamaica and recently moved from Brooklyn, New York, to Cleveland, Ohio. His photos have appeared in The New York Times, Fast Company, Ebony, and The New Yorker’s Instagram account, where he shared his images of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast. The man pictured on this month’s cover is a Brooklyn resident. Roye photographed him on Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

Photography

When Living Is A Protest

My work is an attempt to show what it means to live in the struggle in places like South Carolina and Mississippi, and to document protests from Ferguson, Missouri, to New York City. I want to show the faces of those whose lives are spent in protest.

October 2020