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The Great Sly Dunbar

Photographed June 6, 2008 at Anchor Studios, Windsor Road, Kingston.
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Sly and Robbie: Wikipedia
Sly Dunbar at Dummer World: http://www.drummerworld.com

Chinnaman’s Gaming Shop, Denham Town

Ah childhood. Seems like only thirty (or so) years ago when my biggest worry was the precarious hierarchal politics of the schoolyard where kids who carried briefcases to school were sadistically beaten with sticks.
Yes, those were the good old days, when the worst thing that could happen was to return to the bike rack to [...]

The street photography of Stefan Simikich: Jamaica 2005

People like Stefan Simikich. He’s the sort of person who you could leave in any part of the world and he would fit right in without ever showing up on the radar as an outsider.

The Girl next door is Dead

Model: Cindy Wright

Nobody likes a goody-twoshoes, especially if they drink nothing but bottled water and won’t to help you steal a car (even if you really, really need one).

First moment: Reverend Al takes a bike ride

Reverend Al Sharpton, New York, May 30, 2008. Photographed by Job Ouma.

One of the great things of having transformed First into a primarily web-driven publication is the sheer joy of avoiding pagination meetings. These meetings often meant the painful elimination of content that we liked, but didn’t have space for within the 36-page limit of [...]

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