Born and raised in northern California, Ruy Carpenter has traveled and lived many places around the world, recently returning to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began his multiple exposure photographic practice while working as a technical assistant to an artist in Fiji, and has facilitated the creation of large scale media installations and gallery projects nationally and throughout Europe. Ruy creates his multiple exposures in-camera, without any layering in post-production. This use of visual memory is key to his process.

Ruy says of his work:

Quantum physics suggests there is a dynamic relationship between the observer and the observed; that both are changed by the existence of the other. Multiple exposure work inherently blends the artist's interior world with the subject they photograph. This process of enstasy (or standing into) the present moment so that the full image, within and without, can be seen and felt at once, is the core of the creative process for me, and has become my primary motivation, regardless of what I am photographing. By examining subject and object I strive to transcend divides, expressing the pain and joy of being truly human.