Photography
That Mairoon Ali photo
11/01/10 23:52
On the HaHaHa productions portrait from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Host Andy Johnson and guests (and subjects) Penelope Spencer and Nikki Crosby chat on the TV6 Morning Edtion show about the portrait I did of the group to launch my work on Womanwise for the Sunday Guardian.
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Womanwise photographer notes
05/09/09 23:32
Photography technique notes have been
posted to my photo blog on the first six subjects
shot for the Sunday Guardian's Womanwise magazine. Go behind the
scenes with photos of the women of HaHaHa Productions, Sonya Wells, Marjorie Boothman, Patricia Dardaine-Ragguet, Mariel Brown and Crystal Felix here.
Notes on the lightweight gear I use for these photo sessions are to be found here...
Notes on the lightweight gear I use for these photo sessions are to be found here...
Great Fete 2009 gallery posted
17/08/09 23:01
WomanWise: Patricia Dardaine-Ragguet
17/08/09 22:06
Gerard Gaskin in CRB
14/08/09 21:23
I'm equally surprised to have been one of the people chosen in the first pass of his portrait project on Trinidad and Tobago artists.
Gerard shot the photo here in my front yard, part of the style of the works, apparently, about three years ago. More recent versions of the work have been in grayscale. Photo by Gerard Gaskin, all copyrights honoured and reserved with this reproduction.
Marjorie Boothman for the Sunday Guardian
10/08/09 21:52
New WomanWise photos
03/08/09 21:52
There's another unused image on the home page.
Sunday Guardian portraits
27/07/09 22:53
Been missing doing stylish portraiture for print since I stopped working on the Business Guardian far too long ago.
The women of HaHaHa Productions this week, film producer Sonya Wells next week.
Click on the thumbnail to see an unused image from last week's shoot.
AMPOTT Awards Speech, 2009
27/07/09 22:16
Speech given on behalf of the judges
at the awards event for the 2009 competition. View the
winners here... Read More...
Viey La Cou series begins
14/02/09 00:10
The Viey La Cou series begins today
with Dame Lorraine. I took extensive notes on these photographs in
the late 1980's and have since lost them. If anyone recognises the
players, please let me know so that I can put names to the
faces.
In the 20 years since I shot these photos, most of these old players have since left the stage and younger players with more enthusiasm and far less history have taken their place. I was fortunate enough to have the chance to capture these images when so many of these characters were still being played by performers who had been doing the roles for decades.
I'll be posting the complete series after they appear on the front page of this website in the Virtual Gallery and putting a photographer's note in the Photo Blog.
In the 20 years since I shot these photos, most of these old players have since left the stage and younger players with more enthusiasm and far less history have taken their place. I was fortunate enough to have the chance to capture these images when so many of these characters were still being played by performers who had been doing the roles for decades.
I'll be posting the complete series after they appear on the front page of this website in the Virtual Gallery and putting a photographer's note in the Photo Blog.
McNally talk posted
25/11/08 00:11
The
final posting of notes from PhotoPlus Expo 2008, notes on talks
given by Joe McNally is posted
here...
Remembering Bheem Singh
17/11/08 21:32
Bheem was always kind to strangers but he doted on his children and their children. Photo by Mark Lyndersay.
Bheem Singh died on November 09 and was buried on November 12 in a quiet ceremony at St Mary's Church in St James.
In one of those curious turns that makes Trinidad and Tobago such a unique and intriguing nation, the man who returned Divali, a Hindu festival to St James with a street display outside his home at Ethel Street, was buried under Christian rites.
Bheem Singh was always kind and generous to me and his tireless patience with my efforts to photograph his work for the festival, so he was, after a fashion, the first of my Local Lives subjects.
I first photographed the work he was doing with his sons on Ethel Street for The Wire, but the photos weren't published. When I came by to apologise for wasting his time, he berated me instead for not visiting on Divali night to share in the food his family generously served to anyone who visited their home.
This year, neither Bheem nor I were at the family's celebrations. He was in hospital while the family bravely carried on with the celebrations and I was was in New York, having carelessly failed to factor in the overlap with my travel.
He was a generous, kind and cheerful man, a great neighbour in St James. He will be missed, particularly when the lights of the deyas are lit each year.
I've finally posted the last three of the published Local Lives essays, including A Light in the West.
Fundraisers for Jeffrey Chock annoucned
22/09/08 21:15
PhotoBlog: Lenses, not cameras
22/09/08 21:11
A new
entry on my photography blog explores the importance of high
quality lenses on digital camera bodies. Find it
here...
Chock fundraising
08/09/08 23:09
Virtual exhibit hall
08/09/08 23:09
New
image gallery added to the brand new section of the website,
The Virtual Gallery.
This new section offers images in much higher than normal resolution (images will be 1200 pixels wide or 1024 pixels high on their long side, depending on orientation) and will fit nicely on a screen that’s 17 inches or larger.
The display is roughly equivalent to viewing an 8 x 10 inch print.
This runs counter to the traditional thinking on web reproduction, these larger files being easy targets for theft. But there’s also a very valuable counter movement, exemplified by the Boston Globe’s take on photography on the web. Which is, in summary, so what?
I’ve had exhibitions of my work in the past and I still haven’t recovered from the experience 25 years later. I’d rather risk some petty theft and display some of my collections properly than massage my ego with another show in a hurry.
Let me know what you think about the first collection. I have another, much larger “show” waiting in the wings.
To assist you in viewing the images on your screen with greater accuracy, I’ve included these colour bars. Most modern monitors offer some colour controls that will eliminate particularly obvious colour casts.
The blocks in the bar are from left to right, 100 percent of blue, green, red and black, 50 percent gray, 25 percent gray and 100 percent white (that block should disappear on this page).
This new section offers images in much higher than normal resolution (images will be 1200 pixels wide or 1024 pixels high on their long side, depending on orientation) and will fit nicely on a screen that’s 17 inches or larger.
The display is roughly equivalent to viewing an 8 x 10 inch print.
This runs counter to the traditional thinking on web reproduction, these larger files being easy targets for theft. But there’s also a very valuable counter movement, exemplified by the Boston Globe’s take on photography on the web. Which is, in summary, so what?
I’ve had exhibitions of my work in the past and I still haven’t recovered from the experience 25 years later. I’d rather risk some petty theft and display some of my collections properly than massage my ego with another show in a hurry.
Let me know what you think about the first collection. I have another, much larger “show” waiting in the wings.
To assist you in viewing the images on your screen with greater accuracy, I’ve included these colour bars. Most modern monitors offer some colour controls that will eliminate particularly obvious colour casts.
The blocks in the bar are from left to right, 100 percent of blue, green, red and black, 50 percent gray, 25 percent gray and 100 percent white (that block should disappear on this page).
PhotoBlog: Portrait with a single light
08/09/08 21:10
Norton website launched
23/08/08 00:10
Noel Norton has launched his new
website. View it
here. There's an
excellent history of the studio's operations available on the site.
You can read more about Mr Norton and his place in Trinidad and
Tobago from my perspective here...
PhotoBlog: Photographing a CD cover
22/08/08 23:51
A note
on my approach to photographing an album cover for jazz guitarist
Theron Shaw is posted here...
PhotoBlog: I hate shooting tethered
12/08/08 22:59
Beat Big Up for La Fleur Morte
28/07/08 22:09
The story by journalist James Fuller offers some kind words about my work and manages to date me quite nicely.
I'm not so ancient, however, that I'm likely to be doddering about humming Neil Diamond songs for inspiration, so please note that James misheard me and the quote that he cites is by Neil Gaiman, not the composer of the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull that some folks consider to be quite inspirational.
You can view the story online here...
You can also access many stories from the current issue of Caribbean Beat as well as archives of the magazine by signing up for a free subscription here...
There's a blog posting on my website and links to other material about the project here...
Interview with Magella Moreau and Dennis McComie of Gayelle TV's Cock a Doodle Doo.
Slideshow movie that I prepared for that appearance.
Download the interview here and the slideshow here.
Instant obsolesence
28/04/08 19:30
Hosay in full swing
16/01/08 20:45
La Fleur Morte
18/12/07 00:03
Click on each photo to see an enlarged detail.
These images are excerpts from a larger work that is in progress in which I examine the way that flowers, the reproductive organs of plants, deteriorate after they are picked and discarded.
The first two images were selected for display in the Art Society's November exhibition for 2007 and you can view an interview with Magella Moreau and Dennis McComie on the Gayelle Morning Show, Cock a Doodle Doo here and download the interview here. If you're curious about the slideshow I put together for my appearance, you can find that download here and view it here.
More thoughts about photojournalism
03/09/07 21:40
This is what I sent her, after initially thinking that I really had nothing more to say. Of course, what I proceeded to do was prattle on about photojournalism. Read More...
AMPOTT Judges' Notes, 2007
01/09/07 14:54
Gayelle TV interview
16/08/07 20:14
AMPOTT Judging
10/08/07 20:31
The Modern Eye
06/08/07 21:20
Alex Smailes & Carnival
25/06/07 20:23
I've also written about Noel Norton here... Read More...
Five Fingers
07/05/07 17:07