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Vicky Roy, a street child-turned-ace art photographer, will be India’s sole representative at the prestigious The Art of Photography Show 2011 to be held in San Diego in the US later this month. Announcing the selection recently, the show’s judge, Anne Lyden, an associate curator at the J. Paul Getty Musuem in Los Angeles, said: "Vicky Roy’s photograph was one of the 109 entries from 72 countries chosen from among 15,444 photographs."
The chosen photograph, "In all colors and sizes", is from Roy’s new photography series "A Better Life". Roy, 24, originally from Purulia in West Bengal, came to the Capital as a runaway kid in 1999. He was then taken care of by Salaam Balak Trust, a large juvenile destitute facility near the New Delhi railway station. "I fled to Delhi from home in 1999 and found shelter at a non-profit organisation, Salaam Balak Trust, after spending a few months on the streets. I began photography in 2005," recalls Roy. He studied photography at the Triveni Kala Sangam and at the International Centre of Photography in New York. In 2009, the Ramchander Nath Foundation sponsored him for a mentoring programme at the US-based Maybach Foundation, where he was chosen to photo-document the reconstruction of the World Trade Centre in New York The portfolio of the reconstruction that Roy gathered in New York was exhibited at the American Centre in the Capital. He held his second solo show, WTC: Now, at the American Centre in New Delhi last year. "Vicky Roy’s is the only work to be chosen from the Indian subcontinent," says Steven Churchill, producer of The Art of Photography Show." Last year, 1,500 people
attended the opening reception and this year the organisers are
expecting more people. The event started at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery
in San Diego on August 13 and will be on till October 23. —
IANS
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