Lee Scratch Perry photographed by Shaniqwa Jarvis in Switzerland
It takes a really special type of genius to create new genres and explore musicianship in undiscovered ways. You really have to march to the beat of your own drum. Lee Scratch Perry is one of those innovators. And my guys at Supreme recognize that. So we made a short film on him. This one was a little bit different than what we usually do. It was really about patchworking all this really fantastic footage into a digestable story. We wanted you to feel what Lee is all about in a couple minutes and hopefully learn a little something about him. I certainly did working on this project.
In Lee Scratch Perry's honor of good vibrations I'm giving away a couple of the incredible Supreme posters Shaniqwa Jarvis photographed of him (above). These are not for sale, highly sought after, and so good... You know the routine... Hit me with your name and active e-mail in the comments section. Follow me on Twitter @JakeDavisFilms and remember "you have to turn the evil down, and turn the good up, so that the good will always be over the evil..."
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Thanks Jake.
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A book of photographs by Pogus Caesar celebrating Britain's iconic black musicians is to be published next month.
The book features evocative, nostalgic and largely unpublished images of musical legends like Stevie Wonder, Grace Jones and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.
Most of Caesar’s photography is based around his home city of Birmingham, documenting a spectrum of well-known personalities and recording significant events including the Handsworth riots, Birmingham tornado and the regeneration of the Bullring.
“These images record a unique period in what would come to be called black British life,” remarks author and historian Paul Gilroy.
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The launch of Muzika Kinda Sweet follows an exhibition of the work at the Oom Gallery in Birmingham earlier this year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/pogus-caesars-muzika-kinda-sweet-2080071.html?action=Gallery&ino=3
Posted by: Dawters | Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 07:19 AM
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Makes a change - nice for the coffee table, lazing on Sundays and dreaming.
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Pogus Caesar film on Handsworth Riots: BBC TV
In 1985 tension and community discontentment escalated into the historical Handsworth riots that rocked Birmingham UK between 9th - 11th September 1985.
Birmingham film maker and photographer Pogus Caesar knows Handsworth well. He found himself in the centre of the 1985 riots and spent two days capturing a series of startling images. Caesar kept them hidden for 20 years. Why? And how does he see Handsworth now?.
The stark black and white photographs featured in the film provide a rare, valuable and historical record of the raw emotion, heartbreak and violence that unfolded during those dark and fateful days in September 1985.
http://youtu.be/Ey7ijaXv6UQ
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