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Perry Henzell

    Perry Henzell is celebrated as the visionary behind the first Jamaican feature film, a seminal work that captured the island's vibrant culture and struggles. His filmmaking delved into the realities of Jamaican society, portraying characters striving for survival and recognition against challenging backdrops. Henzell's distinct style blended raw authenticity with a keen eye for social commentary, leaving an indelible mark on cinematic history.

    Reggae, Rastas, Rum
    Yes Rasta
    • Yes Rasta

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      With bold black-and-white portraits and landscapes, Cariou indelibly captured the strict, separatist, jungle-dwelling, fruit-of-the-land lifestyle—popularized by reggae legends Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Burning Spear—in images never before seen, until now. In Yes Rasta —the phrase spoken by true Rastafari when greeting each other—Cariou's direct, classical photographs reveal men whose style and attitude are as distinctive as their dreadlocks. Men who have left the modern world of Babylon in pursuit of their own independence. Men whose lives are intertwined with the tropical landscape, and whose rituals, symbols, philosophies, religion, medicine, agriculture, family structure, and remarkable strength make the definitive statement of self-reliance.

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