Vicky Roy

Originally from West Bengal, Vicky Roy ran away from home and began working as a rag picker at the New Delhi Railway Station, before being rehabilitated by the NGO Salaam Baalak Trust, Delhi. He studied photography at Triveni Kala Sangam and later apprenticed under Anay Mann. In 2007, he held his first solo exhibition titled Street Dream at the India Habitat Centre (New Delhi, India), supported by the British High Commission.

In 2008, he was selected by the US-based Maybach Foundation to 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 in New York.

His first monograph, Home Street Home, published by the Nazar Foundation (New Delhi, India), was 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, in 2017. He was also part of the Houston FotoFest Biennial and Kochi Muziris Biennale in 2018. Scraping the Sky was exhibited at the Asia Society Texas Center in 2019. In 2024, he published his second book on disability, Everyone Is Good at Something.

He was awarded the MIT Media Fellowship in 2014 and was listed in Forbes Asia's 30 Under 30 in 2016.