Roy Mehta

Biography

Roy Mehta is Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College of Communication. He has worked in photography for over thirty years as a practitioner as well as lecturer.

Much of his work focuses on diversity and belonging. Through documenting everyday life, his work builds connections between different identities. Through projects such as Distant Relations and Revival, London his work examines how cultures and identities interweave.

His work is in the permanent collections of Autograph, Historic England, The Library of Birmingham, The Harris Museum and Art Gallery and IKS Collection, Germany.

Mehta’s work has been exhibited internationally including The Cape Town festival of Photography, Darmstadt Art Gallery, Germany, Tate Exchange Liverpool, Plovdiv International Photography Festival in Bulgaria, Focal Point Gallery UK and most recently The Migration Museum in London.
He is presently working with The Kiln Theatre in London on a project to interpret the heritage of people who have lived near Kilburn High Road in London. This is for a stills project due to be launched in 2026. He is also a judge on The Documentary Photography Awards (DPA), organised by The Royal Photographic Society.

His work is currently on show at Tate Britain as part of their major retrospective group exhibition on photography: The 80’s Photographing Britain.

He also has extensive experience working in the commercial sector for a wide range of clients in the advertising sector including Virgin, Tesco, RHS and Sainsbury’s. He has also been commissioned to produce the photography for book covers for many publishers including Penguin, Random House and Faber & Faber for authors such as Salmon Rushdie, PD James, Orphan Pamuk and Thomas Hardy.