Event
Photoville 2018: Ruddy Roye Explores Race and Diversity Through His Work
Event Date:
September 22, 2018 | 7:30 PM EDTADDRESS:
Under the Bridge in Brooklyn Bridge Park
334 Furman Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
![Freshmen enter the Morehouse chapel named for Martin Luther King, Jr., whose words are etched on the wall. The weekly, required Crown Forum assembly introduces leaders who address issues of the day. The all-male college aims to develop disciplined men who will lead lives of scholarship and service. Image by Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye. United States, 2017.](/sites/default/files/03-12-18/black-colleges-hbcu-enrollment-14.adapt_.1900.1.jpg "Freshmen enter the Morehouse chapel named for Martin Luther King, Jr., whose words are etched on the wall. The weekly, required Crown Forum assembly introduces leaders who address issues of the day. The all-male college aims to develop disciplined men who will lead lives of scholarship and service. Image by Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye. United States, 2017.")
Nina Robinson and Ruddy Roye traveled to campuses across the country to see why young black people...
![Freshmen enter the Morehouse chapel named for Martin Luther King, Jr., whose words are etched on the wall. Image by Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye. United States, 2017.](/sites/default/files/08-30-18/ruddyroye1.jpg "Freshmen enter the Morehouse chapel named for Martin Luther King, Jr., whose words are etched on the wall. Image by Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye. United States, 2017.")
On Saturday, September 22, 2018, Pulitzer Center grantee Ruddy Roye participates in the National Geographic program at Photoville 2018, "A Year Reflecting on Race and Diversity in America," with several other photographers who contributed to the magazine's series of stories on race and diversity.
Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel, photo editor at National Geographic, moderates the conversation.
In their Pulitzer Center-supported project, Roye and Nina Robinson, a documentary photographer and educator based in Arkansas and New York, explored historically black universities and colleges across the country and considered what about these colleges is leading to a surge in applications and the lifelong loyalty of their alumnae.
Roye is a Brooklyn based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits, and photojournalism. Roye has worked with magazines like National Geographic, TIME, the New York Times, Vogue, Jet, Ebony, ESPN, Essence, and New York Newsday. He is known for his use of Instagram as a photojournalist, and he was recently named TIME magazine's Instagram photographer of the year (2016) and was asked to take over TIME and the New Yorker Instagram feeds.
Roye is one of several Pulitzer Center-supported photojournalists whose work is being featured at Photoville 2018.