Man in the water, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2003
Henry Roy: ‘Impossible Island evokes my exile and the quest for a metaphorical island, an imaginary refuge where one can escape the brutality of the world. It presents a bittersweet universe where water and sunlight dominate, symbols of both life and death. Here, one confronts a world marked by tension, a wavering between dream and reality, tragedy and sweetness, melancholy and voluptuousness’