Henry Roy
Jane & Jeremy
Henry Roy’s The Land of Haunted Forests turns to the Casamance region of Senegal, engaging with the animist traditions of the Joola people. The work is structured as a process of exploration, with photographs tracing a movement through landscapes and communities where spiritual belief is embedded in everyday life. Roy’s images favour atmosphere over explanation, allowing the interplay between environment and ritual to emerge gradually. In doing so, the book situates itself between documentation and interpretation, reflecting on the limits of photographic understanding in the face of deeply rooted cultural systems.
