"This work is about exile," the Franco-Haitian photographer tells AnOther of his book, launched alongside a retrospective at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
"Impossible Island refers to the French expression la possibilité d'une île, which suggests the hope of finding a refuge in contemporary reality," the photographer explains.
"I was born on an impossible island, Haiti, which I had to leave at a very young age. My work describes the imagination of someone uprooted, searching for a lost island."
Roy decided to become a photographer when he was 18 after helping a friend develop images in the darkroom, stating that "something powerful happened within" when he saw the first photograph emerge from the bathtub.
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