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Mr. Roy, for over a decade your images have graced the pages and covers of Vogue and Vanity Fair.

How would you describe your relationship with fashion and portrait photography?

I certainly wouldn't dare call myself a fashion photographer. Never have, never will be.

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I got into photography largely because I've had and still do have this long-standing fascination with the human condition. So I'm just genuinely interested in people and finding these moments of vulnerability that allows me to mirror back and make sense of my own experience.

So as a portrait photographer, what's interesting is finding these glimpses that everyone reveals subconsciously, and being tuned into that reflection and grabbing it so that you have something to look at and subconsciously study.

And fashion?

Fashion, to me, was always a vehicle for access to a particular segment of