TCF Ep. 475 - Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Radcliffe “Ruddy” Roye is a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photo-journalism photography. A photographer with over twelve years of experience, Radcliffe is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grass-roots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica. Radcliffe strives to tell the stories of their victories and ills by bringing their voices to matte fibre paper. Recently, Radcliffe began experimenting with interpretative photography, preferring to allow the abstract content within the frame to dictate the voice and purpose of the image. His Elements series focuses on the bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery, that is trapped behind a diffused lens. With painterly abilities, Radcliffe uses this diffused methodology to subtly awake the subconscious and expose the isolated figure or vision painted within a rhetorical frame. Podcast Awards Photographer Links: Listener Intro: James Lee Education Resources: Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	Hi, this is James Lee from Encinitas, California, and you are listening to The Candid Frame.
0:13.6	A few months ago, I attended the Focus on the Story Photo Festival in Washington, D.C.
0:19.6	There I met some amazingly talented photographers. They each
0:24.7	shared a passion, not just for photography, but for telling stories. And unlike other photo
0:31.5	events, where the focus is often on the equipment and mechanics of image making. This festival focused more on the why.
0:41.0	Why do these stories need to be told?
0:44.5	Why do you have to be the one to tell it?
0:47.0	Why do you have to persist with the work in a world awash with distraction, noise, and indifference?
0:54.5	Photojournalist and documentary photographer Ruddy Roy is a photographer who knows exactly what drives
1:01.8	him. Though he's now recognized for his talent, his passion, and his body of work, he's
1:07.9	facetimes when the phone didn't ring and the assignments didn't come. Yet,
1:12.8	he persisted because he understood that photography for him was more than just a vocation.
1:19.6	He knew the answer to the question of why do you keep going. You ask yourself, why are you doing it?
1:26.2	And if your why is money, you will be insane.
1:31.2	If your why is a hundred years from now, somebody's going to come and need this work. It's the
1:37.6	biggest motivator to waking up every day and doing it to make sure that that person gets it
1:44.1	a hundred years from now.
1:46.0	And that's it.
1:47.0	It's as simple as that.
1:48.0	What makes Ruddy's work so exceptional is not merely who he photographs, but how he sees
1:54.0	them even before he makes a single image.
1:57.0	When he photographs people, especially men and women of color, he taps into his own experiences of loss, pain, joy, and longing.
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