MARIE-JOSÉE ROY photographer • Montreal • 514-526-7643

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EXPLORATIONS

My photographic explorations are found here. Many of these projects were presented to the public in galleries, whereas others can only be accessed through this site.

» POETIC MEMORY / COMING NEARER

"The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ..."


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» migrations intérieures

The project Migrations intérieures consists of a series of photograghic portraits of individuals who have established themselves in Rivière-du-Loup after a lifetime in the rural regions


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» alias

... or how the final photo artefact is the witness to a reality reconstructed


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» lost and found

As I walked the streets of Montreal I would find photographs. In time, this collection came to fascinate me. Why were they tossed away? Had they ever been seen?


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» COMMONPLACE TO SACRED

 



» Montreal en mouvement

In the series entitled "Montreal en mouvement", I photographed Montrealers in acts of civil protest


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» carrés d'intimité

CARRÉS D'INTIMITÉ is a photography project whose aim is to represent, through slices of the individual's personal history, the cultural face of Quebec today


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» chemin de croix

ON THE FIRST SUNDAY of every month, the Orphans of Huberdeau gather together in a sort of iconographic Christian ritual. Fortified with crosses, they walk in procession in the public space reciting their suffering


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» dream boat

DREAMBOAT takes place at the Comité social Centre-Sud, a community centre in the Centre-Sud district of Montreal. To those interested, I would give tracing paper, on which they would write a wish, a desire to be fulfilled


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» Family portraits

Family photos reveal more information than one might think. When we look carefully at the poses of models in the Old Masters' paintings we find they are often copied by the subjects of our family snapshots