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Eduardo Martino: Urban farming in Cuba

By Ross Sheil • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features

Like many in the Caribbean Brazilian photojournalist Eduardo Martino has a fascination with Cuba. Last year the London-based Martino made the trip to Havana - after Castro had gone in for treatment and later, out of the Presidency - to document ordinary Cubans attempting to solve food supply shortages and the looming worldwide increase in […]



Usain Bolt breaks 100m record: Jamaica owns it, again!

By Ross Sheil • May 31st, 2008 • Category: The Feed

It’s official, Jamaica again owns the 100m world record after Usain Bolt today ran 9.72 seconds to beat compatriot Asafa Powell’s previous world record of 9.74.



Toddla T - Dancehall from Sheffield, England

By Ross Sheil • May 24th, 2008 • Category: Features

Our German friends at seen. tipped us off about Toddla T. T’s selected at a bunch of hipster clubs and makes solid, Dancehall-influenced music from unlikely Sheffield, North England.
But then again, foreigners’ obsession with the music goes far and sometimes do it better, if a little differently. His other influences include Zouk, Tropical and 2-step […]



The Trouble with Clovis

By Ross Sheil • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Features

Photographs by Peter Dean Rickards

The cartoonist of the Jamaica Observer newspaper, Clovis Brown’s daily musings have been distressing politicians since the 1980’s. Other times they are happily ordering their likenesses from him. Originally inspired by Conan the Barbarian - yes, the cartoon that was made into the Arnie movie - Clovis is really a nice […]