Henry Roy

Loose Joints is proud to present the first monograph exploring forty years of innovative Franco-Haitian artist Henry Roy’s sublime photographic practice. Published in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA),Impossible Islandbrings together photography, text, and video to immerse readers in Roy’s world of interconnected dreams, where time, place, and memory flow together.

Roys works, spanning his native Haiti, France, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand, Tunisia, and beyond, build a photographic worldview influenced by French modernism, New Wave aesthetics, creolization, and Haitianspiralisme. Through his sun-kissed style and animistic sensibility, Roy grants agency to all forms of life, creating transcendent moments that transcend time and place. His images evoke layered narratives that reject imperialist frameworks, inviting viewers to