Sat 11/5 @ 1-2:30PM
Jamaican-born, New York City-based photographer Ruddy Roye had been photographing the lives of every-day people in places like Memphis Mississippi and Milwaukee and standing with victims of police brutality in Ferguson and New York when his show When Living Is a Protest at the Cleveland Print Room in early 2019 documented the persistent struggle of being a person of color in America. He’d become known for his powerful images and accompanying essays on the subject which he posted on Instagram.
A couple of years ago, Roye, already a familiar presence at the Cleveland Print Room, decided to move to Cleveland, where he’s continued to do the work, as well as hold classes and seminars in working in the field. He’s been spending time at the Outhwaite Housing Complex in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood near East 55th and Woodland, one of the fist public housing complexes in the U.S. (built in 1935). (It was the childhood home of the Stokes brothers.)
The resulting images will be part of a new show at the Cleveland Print Room called OUT and WEIGHTED life — Life at the Outhwaite Housing Complex. He’llbe talking about it at CPR on Saturday November 5. He says, ““My practice as a photographer or as a seer is somewhere between a 24mm and a 80mm lens—depending on the platform. I am accustomed to determining how I am going to proceed with a photo based on the sight, smell and sound that moves around the frame — and in some cases the sweetness and sourness of a story.”
It’s free and open to all.