Radcliffe Roye is a Brooklyn based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits, photo-journalism and stock photography. A self taught photographer with over ten years of experience, Radcliffe is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grass-roots people, especially those from his homeland Jamaica. Radcliffe strives to tell the stories of their victories and ills by bringing their voices to matte fibre paper.
The series Common Thread presented here is composed of portraits of people living in Bedford Stuyvesant, a raw neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York. These images are mostly shot in the street and with Radcliffe’s iPhone. They tell about the condition of « Bed Stuy’s » inhabitants.
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. One of his 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.
