Archive for the ‘Style’ Category

Girl Friday: Bianca Carr

Photographed in New York City, September 2009

Bustamante: the politics of style

When politicians try they tend to overdo it, think jiggy-ancients Robert Pickersgill and Mike Henry. Yet they had former Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante to inspire them…

Source: National Library of Jamaica

Cindy Wright X Agent Provocateur 2010

One of our favorite people – former Miss Jamaica Cindy Wright – is making waves once again, this time with a giant snake draped around her shoulders for Agent Provocateur’s Spring collection. Pretty interesting when you consider the fact that a lizard is probably the only thing that causes the famously laid-back model [...]

The Man in Black: Unseen photographs

Johnny Cash used to have a home in Jamaica, by the Rose Hall Estate in St James, where he wrote the song about the far, far badder Annie Palmer.
These black and whites spent 45 years stuck in the archives of Columbia Records and then in the attic of the widow of photographer Marvin Koner.
Just before [...]

The Random Red Door

Standing near the intersection of Church and Chambers street in Manhattan, I noticed a bright brick wall and a old door that obviously hadn’t been used in years. It’s about 6 in the afternoon and the sun is going down, casting shadows on everything, except for the red door and about ten feet of sidewalk [...]

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