SEED PUBLICATIONS  - Roots to Reckoning – pages 20 - 21

Rastafarian Elder, Tuff Gong, Jamaica 1980

Rastafarian Child, Bull Bay, Jamaica, 1980

Let me share how I came to take this image. It was taken on the veranda of Bob Marley's studio. I had been waiting all day toI photograph Bob but he was very tired and had to rest. I pluckedI up the courage to ask the man if I could photograph him (you don't point your camera at everyone as a matter of respect). He seemedI surprised – he is, after all, not Bob Marley. Most time in JamaicaI you have to pay a photographer to have your photo taken".I

"This portrait was taken in a Rastafarian village just outside KIngston. This child was in a group of children playing: part of a "Niabinghi"I ( a spiritual celebration of music with drums and chanting ). SomeI people just demand to be seen. This child is one of them. He justI emerged."I

Armet Francis

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