Vicky Roy

Originally from West Bengal, Vicky Roy ran away from his home and started working as a rag picker at the New Delhi Railway Station, before he was rehabilitated by an NGO, Salaam Baalak Trust, Delhi. He studied photography at Triveni Kala Sangam and then apprenticed under Anay Mann. In 2007, he held his first solo exhibition titled, Street Dreams at India Habitat Centre (New Delhi, India), supported by the British High Commission.

In 2008, Roy was selected by the U.S.-based Maybach Foundation to photographically document the reconstruction of the World Trade Center in New York. As part of the program, he undertook a course in documentary photography at the International Center for Photography (ICP), New York.

His first monograph, Home Street Home, published by the Nazar Foundation (New Delhi, India), was released at the second edition of the Delhi Photo Festival (Sept-Oct 2013). Roy’s solo show, This Scarred Land: New Mountainscape, was exhibited at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India in 2017. He was part of the Houston FotoFest Biennnial and Kochi Muziris Biennale, both in 2018.

Roy was awarded the MIT Media Fellowship in 2014 and listed as Forbes Asia 30 under 30, in 2016.

This bio was provided by the artist. A more comprehensive profile will be forthcoming.

Books

Home Street Home
Vicky Roy’s debut book, Nazar Foundation, ISBN: 10-819279430X, 2013

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