DELHI STREET CHILD TO ACCLAIMED PHOTOGRAPHER
Vicky Roy
Originally from West Bengal, Vicky Roy ran away from his home and started working as a rag picker at the New Delhi Railway Station, before he was rehabilitated by the Salaam Baalak Trust, Delhi.
He studied photography at Triveni Kala Sangam and then apprenticed under Anay Mann. In 2007, he held his first solo exhibition titled, “Street Dream” at India Habitat Centre; supported by the British High Commisson.
In 2008 he was selected by the US based Maybach Foundation to photo document the reconstruction of the World Trade Center in New York.
As part of the program, he undertook a course in documentary photography at the International Center for Photography, New York.
His first monograph ‘Home Street Home’ published by the Nazar Foundation (New Delhi, India) released at the second edition of the Delhi Photo Festival (Sept-Oct, 2013).
His solo show “This Scarred Land: New Mountainscape” was exhibited at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India in 2017.
He was a part of Houston FotoFest Biennnial and Kochi Muziris Biennale in 2018.
In 2014 Vicky Roy was awarded the MIT Media Fellowship. He was a part of the Forbes Asia 30 under 30 list in 2016.
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Hope for Street Children was established to support organizations like Salaam Baalak Trust that provide shelter, education, and the hope of a future to street children.