Beauty from ashes - Images from a battle zone
Spanish Town, the home of warring gangs, political factions and a violence-riddled past, nurtured him. He survived the bullets, but his art has haunting images of lives lost and the emptiness of broken dreams.
Nine awarded IOJ Musgrave medals for '06
One Gold, six silver and two bronze Musgrave medals will be awarded to eight individuals and one heritage preservation organisation at the Institute of Jamaica's Annual Musgrave Awards Ceremony, slated for Wednesday, October...
Lion on the rock
Errol Brown is an artist living and working in Kingston. His works 'House of Dread', 'Lion on the Rock' and 'Untitled' are currently on view in the exhibition Intuitives III at the National Gallery of Jamaica. Here he discusses...
Book review - Bringing two sides to life
Of Polish and Hungarian extraction, Jullia Rypinski (1911-2004) wrote with verve, style, and a wonderfully deep humility about the stages of life and the coming of death.
JUXTAPOSITION Imposing a relationship - Conveying a concept
This is a favourite word of my friend and fellow photographer, Robert Paisley, whom I have a lot of respect for when it comes to photography. As a judge in our club's monthly slide clinics...
Ernest Palmer's dream
Outsiders who saw Ernest in the village square in the years following his dream would never suspect that he was once rich and famous. Now he spent most of his time on the piazza of the shop begging rum and cigarettes from...
'Nicky'
Nicky lifted the battered aluminum pan of water onto her flattened head and slowly made her way up the muddy path to her hut. The river had overflowed again and the water she drew was murky; she would have to boil it, then bleach it.
Slavery and Ethnicities in the Americas
This book is a rich collection of data on African ethnicities in the Americas, which Gwendolyn Midlo Hall has interpreted and presented in a scholarly manner and has attempted to put a face to the millions of African slaves who were shipped...
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