Ep. 02 Photography for Change

Renowned documentary photographer Vicky Roy talks about his experiences while getting to know - and working with - children from diverse backgrounds, and his own childhood and how it shaped his practice.  Get the transcript here: https://bit.ly/VickyRoyTranscript

Vicky Roy 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; supported by the British High Commission. In 2008, he was selected by the Maybach Foundation to photo 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, New York. His first monograph Home Street Home published by the Nazar Foundation (New Delhi, India) released at the second edition of the Delhi Photo Festival (Sept-Oct, 2013). His solo show “This Scarred Land: New Mountainscape” was exhibited at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India in 2017. He was a part of Houston FotoFest Biennial and Kochi Muziris Biennale in 2018. He was awarded the MIT Media Fellowship in 2014. He was a part of the Forbes Asia 30 under 30 list in 2016.

Hosted and edited by: Sanjana Chopra (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC