Spirit by Henry Roy

Spirit is Henry Roy's beautiful photo book and is another sweet release from Gottlund Verlag.
Henry Roy is a 47 year old Haitian-born photographer from France and he made a really, really excellent book.



Spirit is a 64 page book containing full colour photos and 6 short stories in French and English. The stories are really great and add another dimension to the work. Although I don't think the stories are directly related to any of the photographs, I found myself jumping back to look at things as I read through them and that was really great.

"Spirit is as subtle and intangible as a breath of air.
It is an energy circulating between beings and things.
It travels with light, winds, clouds or waves, it penetrates in stones, plants and animals.
It affects humans, seizing control of their bodies, whose sentiments and sensuality he reveals.
It manifests itself at the boundaries of the visible, in a dimension where only imagination can penetrate."
- Henry Roy, Paris 2009.















You can read a nice interview that Nicholas Gottlund did with Roy about the book right here or go get a copy.

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