The Designer Island Instagram Profile Series features the work of Caribbean photographers who use Instagram thoughtfully as a means to display their work, show their lives and travels or to make a statement about the Caribbean as they see it. We’re kicking it off today with a profile of Marlon James, a Kingston-born photographer whose work […]
Sometimes in the bush, you find things you did not know you were looking for. Sometimes it’s courage, laughter, wonder or pain. Sometimes it’s seeing parts of yourself that you did not know were even there. Something about walking, climbing, falling, getting up, all surrounded by wet green, not knowing how much further you have […]
Sometimes in a rare, fleeting moment on a rainy day in Port of Spain, you can be in the right place at the right time and the city looks like somewhere else. It becomes a blue, green and grey place — still with its hard edges and unyielding buildings, but somehow soft. In these moments […]
“It’s best to get to the market early. If you come later than 5am, I am leaving you”. He meant it too, so it’s still dark when we set out. Today, distance isn’t the issue, time is; the freshest produce tends to go early. “You both look like tourists,” he laughs. With the fingers of […]
