Norman Jean Roy is an editorial and advertising photographer based in New York City. At 31, he has only been a photographer for 5 years but has experienced incredible success. He has shoot for Vogue, Allure, Harper's Bazaar, Teen Vogue, and Vanity Fair among others and for clients such as Revlon, Loreal, Rolex, Nikon, Samsonite. In a great interview on the Mamiya website he describes himself as a "documentary portrait photographer" and looks at every photo that he takes as documenting his life and what he is seeing and experiencing. He says that he doesn't like to over-plan his shoots but rather leave them open to chance and just go with the feeling of the moment. He likes pared down lighting and will often use available light. Not only are his images beautiful and creative, I am very inspired by his passion and persistence and his ability to make a name for himself in such a short period of time. When asked if he was suprised by his success he said no, that he has always been persistent about meeting any goal that he sets for himself and that he works day and night, seven days a week, to make those goals become reality.
"The thing about photography that is most incredible to me is the way that it captures the immediacy of the moment. Photography is about freezing time; it takes an actual moment that did happen and it freezes it forever. So however you set up your shot, or however you interpret what you’re trying to shoot, the moment you photograph it and freeze it, you have documented an actual moment in time. To quote Avedon, photography is "all accurate, none is truth." The events portrayed in a frozen moment are the interpretation of both the photographer and the viewer--and an explanation may reveal its accuracy but rarely reveals the truth. Only the creator of the image knows the real truth (or at least the intended truth)."
-Norman Jean Roy
A story from American Vogue:
www.art-dept.com/artists/roy/
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