Louis Davis (right) in discussion with The Gleaner's Editor-in-Chief, Wyvolyn Gager, after the presentation of the Silver Pen Award at The Gleaner yesterday. - Rudolph Brown LOUIS DAVIS'S concern about the scant regard paid to the colours of the Jamaican flag, yesterday earned him The Gleaner's Silver Pen award for August 2000.
A freelance advertising photographer, Mr. Davis expressed in his August 5 letter to the Editor entitled 'Distorting the National Flag', his annoyance that persons were bastardising the flag by substituting the traditional gold with a pale yellow.
He charged that this did not apply only to cheap disposable flags, but also to those being used at embassies, public sector buildings and important Government agencies.
A resident of Mona, St. Andrew, Mr. Davis is a graduate of the Caribbean Institute of the Media and Communications (Carimac) and has done directing and production for television.
"I recognise that some of our symbols are being quietly eroded, and the future generation is getting some of our history wrong," he said when he collected his award at The Gleaner yesterday.
His work includes the popular Red Label Wine billboard, and he has done various calendars and album covers. He had a solo photographic exhibition last year at the Mutual Life Gallery, Oxford Road, Kingston.
"People have validated me as an artist," he said. "Everybody is a photographer, I do photographic art, I express myself through photography." Also, he expresses himself through writing and explains that he has written on many issues.
"Even though it's a situation that can be easily remedied, I don't think there will be any trumpets blowing, but writing serves as an outlet for my frustration, and if it should be said, I'll say it."
