Young Photographer Vicky Roy to Give Talk in Kochi as Biennale Artist

KOCHI:
Famed photographer Vicky Roy will be sharing his artistic journey at a programme this weekend in the city, where he is a participant at the upcoming Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB).

The 30-year-old visual artist of international repute will address a ‘Let’s Talk’ session in Fort Kochi’s Pepper House on November 3, ahead of the fourth edition of the KMB beginning on December 12.

The youngster had shot to fame a decade ago when selected to photo-document the reconstruction of the World Trade Center in New York. Vicky continues to help disadvantaged children by giving them a voice through his works, having worked as a rag-picker after he ran away from his impoverished home in West Bengal and reached Delhi. There, a chance encounter with a photographer changed his life during his rehabilitated existence with a NGO for street children.

Vicky studied photography at Triveni Kala Sangam in the national capital and then apprenticed under Anay Mann, a renowned family portrait artist-curator. In 2007, his first solo exhibition “Street Dream” in that metropolis found support from the British High Commission. Vicky’s first monograph ‘Home Street Home’ released in 2013 at the Delhi Photo Festival and, a year later, the youth was awarded the MIT Media Fellowship.

In 2016, the artist featured in the Forbes Asia 30 under-30 list. In end-2017, Vadehra Art Gallery in Delhi hosted Vicky’s solo show ‘This Scarred Land: New Mountainscape’.