The Daily Mail has put together a great photo essay on the weekend’s activities in London town. Check a few of their shots below…
Hundreds of thousands of revellers descended on the capital today for Europe’s biggest street festival - the Notting Hill Carnival.
Dancers wearing vibrant costumes paraded along the packed three-and-a-half-mile route in west London from 9am today to the sounds of traditional steel drums.
The lines of colourful floats were accompanied by more than 40 static sound systems and scores of Caribbean food stalls….
Running through these photos really took me back to my times in Havana. Check out a sampling of the set below, shot by Cuban photographer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
Race in Cuba: Images of Cuban Life
Scenes from the lives led by black people on the island, shot by native son Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
London-based Photographer Leah Gordon comes through with come amazing black and white imagery. If you’re in London be sure to check out the exhibit, which run through next month. Check out the details below…
Since the earthquake in January 2010, a proliferation of horrific media images have reinforced an ongoing narrative of Haitians as victims – of disaster, of poverty, of corruption. Rarely is Haiti’s incredibly potent colonial history mentioned. Between 1791 and 1804 Haitians led the only successful slave revolt in history which resulted in the abolition of French colonial rule, and in Haiti becoming the first black-led republic. Photographer Leah Gordon’s stunning images of Haiti tell the story of a country intimately in tune with its past. We caught up with her at Riflemaker Gallery where her current exhibition, The Invisibles, is showing until September 10, to find out more.
Photographer Wayatt Gallery gives a peek into the lives of Haitians living in the tent cities of Port-au-Prince. Check out the details below…
Award-winning photographer, Wyatt Gallery, has documented the aftermath of tragedies and regular life at home and overseas. He seems to sense the potential for just this kind of much-needed commonality. His work establishes a sense of calm and a feeling that the photographer understands both what is visible and what the image doesn’t show. Gallery’s most recent photographs represent the lives that any one of us might live after a catastrophe with integrity and inherent respect for his subjects. His photography narrows the gulf between us and the real-people-of-everywhere-else.
Gallery has been working in and around so-called third world countries for several years now. He is a chameleon who immerses himself in the cultures most compelling to his eye and spirit. This has allowed him to create images that document in a truly different way. His work compels the eye because it unerringly evokes the spirit, the subconscious, and the necessary elements of his subjects. In his latest project, “Tent Life – Haiti”, Gallery, who spent his time in Haiti as a relief worker, presents to us the Haitian people and the reformed landscape of Port-au-Prince. The imagery here is vibrant and lush in a way that reminds us of the Haiti that is a handcrafted country, the first free nation of the Caribbean, that its people are undaunted and inherently resilient and that the potential of the nation lies there, as it always has, in the hearts of its population.
In January an earthquake in Haiti killed up to 230,000 people and left more than one million homeless.
As the rainy season began, photographer Jake Price traveled to a number of the many camps that house some of those left homeless and presents his impressions of those struggling to rebuild their lives.
David Corio was born in London, England, in 1960. [...] David has lived and worked in London and New York City, and his work has been published in the New York Times, The Times, the Telegraph, Rolling Stone, Q and Mojo. He has also worked for the School of Visual Arts, the Swedish Institute, New Jersey Institute of Technology, the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers, Greensleeves Records,VP Records, Heartbeat Records, Universal Music Group, EMI and Island Records.
If you’re in the area, be sure to make it out, if you can. At 3 Old School Buildings, St Clement’s Yard Archdale Road (London SE22 9HP).
First Mag took a trip to Haiti last week and documented some of the vivid scenery in Port-au-Prince that exist amongst and around the rubble. Most of the shots are of Haitian art but also the lively colors that exist around most parts of the city.
Another look into the heart of the damage caused by Haiti’s earthquake earlier this year, this time via First Magazine. Check out some details below…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – walking around in the rubble on Grand Rue, one gets the distinct feeling that people are putting on a brave face. Three months after the earthquake that took the lives of more than 200,000 people, life continues despite the indescribable destruction as its residents continue the painstaking process of rebuilding the capital – arguably the most important cultural and historical city in the Caribbean.
Coming from Kingston, the scenes of poverty are not entirely alien, and yet, despite its obvious economic disadvantages there’s something distinctly developed about the Haitian people. Amid the piles of broken concrete, trash and flattened buildings, there’s no begging, no wailing, no time for anything but digging upward and outward for the inhabitants of this rebel nation….
UPDATE: I actually meant to have this video from the Life.Files accompany these photos, to give everyone a better sense of the situation down there. Check it out below, via Ian….
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Google the phrase “Cabarete, Dominican Republic” and you’ll find links for “windsurfing,” “kiteboarding,” and an “eco-sensitive beach front boutique hotel.” Venture beyond Cabarete’s resorts and you’ll find a real city with real people, most of whom will never have the means to enjoy those luxuries. Dominicans and Haitian-Dominicans live in separate communities in and around the area’s sugar plantations, where they find work as cane cutters. Tensions exist between the groups—over housing, labor, and a number of other social problems that accompany economic hardship—and the area can be a object lesson in wealth disparity.
“One takeaway was just how relative everyone’s situation is,” says the photographer Youngna Park, whose visions of off-season sugar cane workers offer a glimpse of everyday plantation life. “What often attracts image making is tragedy, like we saw with Haiti. I was here to witness these people’s normal lives, and the living conditions still seem jarring, so it was certainly an education in relative wealth.”
