Kibwe Brathwaite | Photographer

A short photo-essay conjured from a walk alongside 3Canal’s J’Ouvert band for 2012.

Hey, everyone was doing it, then I found I am Packed where they were doing it, then Hypebeast started doing it.  So I did it too.

Fashion photography is like singing in the shower; I do it occasionally but I would never ever think about doing it for a large audience.  I’d probably shower in front of a large audience faster than sing in front of it.  It is a genre that never truly caught my interest although my work may occasionally straddle the lines of fashion.  One person who is quite familiar with my disconnect from fashion photography is Mel Gabriel, editor of Trinidad Lookbook.  She would joke about this during our casual conversations.  So how the hell did I end up shooting a spread for the 1st edition of Lookbook Magazine?

Occasionally I may encounter really impressive photographs that I wish to share.  Most of them are found online which makes for simple sharing. Other times I find them in magazines and books.  Thus I decided to introduce a series called Taking Pictures of Pictures, which entails me basically… well… taking pictures… of… well… ya know… pictures.  Today we’ll be checking out a book I copped a few months ago named  Tent Life: Haiti.  

Earlier this year Abovegroup Ogilvy coordinated a program with Wendell McShine, Coconut Growers Association (CGA) and the art students of Success Laventille Secondary School called Art Connect.  The program involved McShine teaching the students various levels of visual artistic expression, allowing them to explore their talents through workshops and by engaging in a series of visual installations around the community. 

Congratulations to these guys, Laura and Devin, on their wedding and epic reception ceremony last week.

Walking through the streets of Manhattan it’s inevitable that one would see two things: folks rocking bicycles, and folks rocking cameras. These objects have become accessories that require higher standards of panache, where they seamlessly compliment their owners, and vice versa. Today, amongst the hipsters, the hypebeasts and even the genuine tourists with their exorbitant B&H, Adorama, and Amazon futuristic-gadget-camera acquisitions… this gentleman won.

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On the western coast of Trinidad lies the village of Waterloo, a village with a small rocky waterfront, perfect for throwing an afternoon fishing line. The front overlooks a view of the Gulf of Paria, decorated with fishing boats on calm waters that turn to gold as it touches the setting sun at the horizon . At 500 feet out to the gulf is the Hindu temple built by Sewdass Sadhu in the 1940s. Sadhu, an indentured laborer at the time, constructed the temple entirely by hand after he was forbidden from building one on the land which was owned by Tate and Lyle. Today the temple which is accessed by a causeway, still stands after refurbishment in 1995.

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Early last year while I was properly broke and unemployed, sustained by hops bread and avocados, waking up at 11am, rolling over to my macbook to forage the internet for music, software, movies, ideas, and… um… job openings, I came across a post on one of my favorite blogs, Hypebeast.com. It was about Mexican based Trinidadian born artist, Wendell McShine.