Horace Roye

Horace Narbeth (4 March 1906 – 11 June 2002), known professionally as Roye, was a British photographer.

[1][2] Roye's photograph Tomorrow's Crucifixion, depicting a nude model wearing a gas mask while pinned to a crucifix caused controversy when published in the North London Recorder in August 1938, but later became a noted photograph of its time.

[citation needed] In 1954 with a fellow photographer called Vala, Roye came up with the Roye-Vala 3-D Process.

An account of which he published in 1960 in the booklet Unique Verdict – the Story of an Unsuccessful Prosecution.

[5] In 2002 at the age of 96, Roye was stabbed to death by an intruder at his home in the kasbah of Rabat.

Tomorrow's Crucifixion (1938)