Friday, December 30, 2011
MANY ARE CALLED FEW ARE CHOSEN
Many are called...few are chosen. I was called and chosen to photograph Bob Marley and other Roots Reggae artists. In August 2012 PORTRAITS OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS will be published and the world will behold the treasure whose TIME has come. One Love.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
LINDSAY DONALD AND HIS GIFT OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Reggae musicians have been accused of selling Jamaican
culture. It is not selling our culture.
If God hadn’t given me a song to sing I wouldn’t have a song to sing. Ya kyaan
sell culture.
I was to take this photograph of the Honorable Robert Nesta Marley O.M.SUPPORT JAMAICAN CULTURE..PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND
I was the IN HOUSE photographer at Hope Road. Bob Marley supported Jamaican culture to the fullest. Here he is wearing a t-shirt that glorify's the fine art of RAS DANIEL HARTMAN.
JAMAICA..THE MOST SPIRITUAL PLACE IN THE WEST
MUSIC IS I, AN I IS MUSIC, FOR MAN IS MUSIC AND MUSIC ALONE LIVE THROUGH MAN...RAS DANIEL HARTMAN
ZAP POW AND LINDSAY DONALD
PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS IS FOREVER
We are all aware that fashion is something
that goes in one year and out the other.
PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS is FOREVER.
A Dat.
Bless.
PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS is FOREVER.
A Dat.
Bless.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
COMMIT TO PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS!!!
I am confident in myself and am confident that this book will be published because I am confident in you. I have always admired and respected confident people and at this stage there are no doubts in my vision. Please, I am 100% sure of myself, so kindly drop those insecurities. One Love.
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PETER TOSH LIVE AT THE STANLEY THEATRE
PETER TOSH
STANLEY THEATRE
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
JULY 1983 MAMA AFRICA TOUR
Intro
Pick Myself Up
African, Coming In Hot
Not Gonna Give It Up
Rastafari Is
Where You Gonna Run
Don't Look Back
Glass House
Ketchy Shuby
Brand New Second Hand
Bush Doctor
Johnny B. Good
Get Up Stand Up
STANLEY THEATRE
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
JULY 1983 MAMA AFRICA TOUR
Intro
Pick Myself Up
African, Coming In Hot
Not Gonna Give It Up
Rastafari Is
Where You Gonna Run
Don't Look Back
Glass House
Ketchy Shuby
Brand New Second Hand
Bush Doctor
Johnny B. Good
Get Up Stand Up
LINDSAY DONALD AND THE BUSH DOCTOR
I was to photograph Winston Hubert McIntosh.
Also known as Peter Touch, Stepping Razor, The Bush Doctor, The Mystic Man.
PETER TOSH THE SUN OF REGGAE.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
MY HOME IS IN MY HEAD
My home is what I think
about. My home is not a material award out there somewhere y’know. My home is
in my head.
Painting courtesy of Mark Robinson. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=154022077961452&set=t.100000890253045&type=1&theater#!/pages/Mark-Robinson-Paintings/128514130593287
PLACES I HAVE CALLED HOME
Places I have called HOME.
London, New York, Lagos, Algiers, Los Angeles, Accra, Stockholm, Caracas, Kingston, Agadez, Fez, Berlin, Zurich
LINDSAY DONALD THE PHOTOGRAPHER
For twenty years I had been photographing contentedly. The world was a calendar: Sunset after sunset. But slowly and subtly ‘the calendar view’ of the reality, was being cut and I began to experience a quality of struggle between my clarified sense of perception and my old learned photographic responses to the outside world.
I somehow
slowed down and began to sit quietly on my own and saw that I had to join the
practice of meditating with the technical knowledge of photography and not to
keep them as separate compartments in my life! I also had to understand that I
should trust that first thought, and to go along with it and not to
conceptualize too much in my work.
I figured that
I did not have to impress an imaginary audience as I was shooting, that way I
was able to approach the whole thing simply. In a nutshell, I had to learn to
appreciate the ordinariness of the world around me.
Someone said to me, that I should learn to sit down and meditate, because
meditation slows down the basic speed and aggressive qualities of the mind and
it also allows the senses to operate in a more natural and uncluttered field,
which is unbiased by considerations of what I would like or not like to
see!
While shooting the bulk of this work, I was noticing that I was being caught
in a mind trap. I was not shooting what I saw. In the first instant, a fresh
perception would occupy my thoughts and immediately, I would get another flash
of inspiration of how I would have like to shoot the same subject. I would
inevitably lose the first fresh idea, and photograph along a predictable
conditioned response. This split between my first and second thought became
extremely frustrating. I had no way of relating with that frustration.
As my work developed, I began to
appreciate that the images I was producing were coming closer to recording
things as I was actually seeing them; somehow, the basic qualities of people.
From that point of view, I feel that one major obstacle has been removed from my
journey as a photographer. I am now able to share my experience of the world
with this increasing simplicity.
For any
photographer who wishes to express his or her vision of the world as they see
it, what they say can be enormously helpful and inspiring for future
generations.
REGGAE REPORT
http://www.reggaereport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=90
PING!!!! I was a contributing writer to Reggae Report.
PING!!!! I was a contributing writer to Reggae Report.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
I KNOW THERE IS NO END
We don't deal with death. All the meaning of Rasta is in life. The gift of JAH is life. The path of sin is death. If man doesn't sin, well, we know miracles have happened to people and they still live. We know there are wonderful paths. We have a guardian angel that guides us. If you do something bad, then this spirit is vexed and you can die. Humans give importance to death because they don't understand God. They don't see Rastafari is God. They know nothing about the changes on this earth. There is no end. There will be no end.
Painting courtesy of Maria Sargarodschi.
I DON'T BELIEVE..I KNOW
I don’t believe, you
know. When you believe, you have
doubts. You have to know. I know that His Imperial Majesty Haile
Selassie is God Almighty. That’s what I know.
Painting courtesy of Maria Sargarodschi.
THE LEGEND
I was to accompany Bob Marley and The Wailers on the UPRISING tour in 1980.
Photographs that I took on this tour are probably some of the last unpublished
images taken of the Legend Bob Marley. They will be published in my book,
Portrait of a Legend and Other Folks, due to be published in August, 2012.
Friday, December 23, 2011
THE TRINITY
In everything there is good and bad, even in technology. And when the white man is in power, he doesn't want to acknowledge the black man is his brother. Men must learn to live together, in harmony with each other. All of what the white leaders did has been machine guns and bombs. So, we disqualify them as leaders, or they rather disqualify themselves because they ignore the right way. They still think they must kill to survive. The white man failed to rule the world. Now the black man's time has come.
But all these t’ings have to happen, if it don’t happen, Rasta wouldn’t write. It’s the youth that do it, it’s not our people. JAH say when ya’ call of my name, ya’ mother, ya’ father, ya’ best friend, everyone turn against you just because you say Rastafari is the Almighty. Seen? If I and I should go to church and baptize in the name of Jesus and accept the gift of the Holy Ghost and join the army of ignorance, I would get a whole heap of recognition. Maybe have a church by this (time). According to my knowledge, philosophically, spiritually and mentally I could build a church. But true, if I get a church now, it’s to go wake up the slumbering mentality of the youth dem, who dem try to brainwash and lead astray in blood claat fantasy and imagination.
The world say I think subversive, but truthful rights I deal with, equal right and justice that I stand for, because I have got too much injustice for the good that I do. If I and I was doing wickedness I’d kill up a whole heap of blood claat. Ya’ know seen. Yes I. Dem know that I am doing goodness, so dem fight against I.
It is dangerous to think that reggae is the responsibility of one individual. I don’t see it that way. I am just a part of the shoulder that the music rests upon.
But all these t’ings have to happen, if it don’t happen, Rasta wouldn’t write. It’s the youth that do it, it’s not our people. JAH say when ya’ call of my name, ya’ mother, ya’ father, ya’ best friend, everyone turn against you just because you say Rastafari is the Almighty. Seen? If I and I should go to church and baptize in the name of Jesus and accept the gift of the Holy Ghost and join the army of ignorance, I would get a whole heap of recognition. Maybe have a church by this (time). According to my knowledge, philosophically, spiritually and mentally I could build a church. But true, if I get a church now, it’s to go wake up the slumbering mentality of the youth dem, who dem try to brainwash and lead astray in blood claat fantasy and imagination.
The world say I think subversive, but truthful rights I deal with, equal right and justice that I stand for, because I have got too much injustice for the good that I do. If I and I was doing wickedness I’d kill up a whole heap of blood claat. Ya’ know seen. Yes I. Dem know that I am doing goodness, so dem fight against I.
It is dangerous to think that reggae is the responsibility of one individual. I don’t see it that way. I am just a part of the shoulder that the music rests upon.
MY REASONINGS
Bob's words are soft and illuminating.
Peter's words were simply militant.
Bunny talks a load of crap...sometimes.
Peter's words were simply militant.
Bunny talks a load of crap...sometimes.
I SHOW HIM GOD
God is not in
big big book ya know
When ya
explain God even to the baby who can talk and unnerstand mostly who God is When ya tell the youth who God is
Is just like ya show him father Christmas so easy to show him father Christmas
That is a killer
Look how quick them show the youth father Christmas
I show him God. Bob Marley
SMILE YOUR IN JAMAICA
I said ‘Smile you’re in Jamaica’. I didn’t say ‘Smile Jamaicans, be a Jamaican’. I don’t deal with that, a whole bag o’fuckery that.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
JAMAICANS WE JUST RUN THINGS
This is serious.
Jamaicans go to the polls two weeks from now.
I am forever a proud Jamaican loving the Land of my Birth.
Yet I detest the continual 'garrison' mentalitity which prevails in Jamaican society.
It prevents the country moving ever faster forward into this twenty-first century.
The Jamaican Gleaner is an institution that does NOT help in eradicating this mentality.
Why?
They have their own fish-a-fry.
This is one fundamental reason why Jamaica is continually scarred by violence and destruction.
FOR FU*K SAKE.......STOP IT YOU LOT.
A DAT.
PEACE.......!!!
Jamaicans go to the polls two weeks from now.
I am forever a proud Jamaican loving the Land of my Birth.
Yet I detest the continual 'garrison' mentalitity which prevails in Jamaican society.
It prevents the country moving ever faster forward into this twenty-first century.
The Jamaican Gleaner is an institution that does NOT help in eradicating this mentality.
Why?
They have their own fish-a-fry.
This is one fundamental reason why Jamaica is continually scarred by violence and destruction.
FOR FU*K SAKE.......STOP IT YOU LOT.
A DAT.
PEACE.......!!!
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
LEAVE YOUR LOVE IN SOMEONE'S HEART TODAY. INVEST IN THE FUTURE OF FINE ART JAMAICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, TODAY. FEED THE MIND AND SOUL AND BEAUTY. THE HUT GALLERY, NEGRIL, JAMAICA
I SPENT SOME TIME IN LIZARD TOWN
I lived for awhile at the bottom of Darling Street, otherwise known as Lizard Town. Lizard Town sits next to Back O'Wall, now known as Tivoli Gardens.
Monday, December 19, 2011
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 1980
I was to take this portrait of Mr Robert Nesta Marley, performing at Madison Square Garden in September, 1980, in what would be his penultimate concert.
LINDSAY WHY ARE YOU TAKING ALL THESE PHOTOS?
Like I once told Bob, until whenever. And whenever is NOW. He smiled. And then I knew we were friends.
35 YEARS OF WORK..PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS
As we slowly trod the road, I am thrilled with the
quality of the the images that will adorn the book. The sheer quality of each image
and the use of black and white will make this book a feast for any lover of
roots/portraiture photography. The layout will be simple, but exceedingly
stylish and the presentation of the book will be superb. The master American
photographer Mr Ansel Adams is reported to have once said that if he took one
exceptional photograph a month he considered himself fortunate. Mr Adams was a
prolific photographer who took tens of thousands of frames during his lifetime.
From my small collection of 10,000 negatives, I have found 288 photographs from
the past 35 years which I considered exceptional, and these will be published
in August, 2012, in a monograph of original black and white prints titled,
PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS.
THE BLACK TRINITY
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
LINDSAY, WHY ARE ALL YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS IN BLACK AND WHITE?
All the photograph's are in black and white because I only shoot black and white photographs. I dabble in colour.
CHILLIN IN HARROW
In
1962 I emigrated to Harrow, England, to live with my mother. After
leaving school in 1968, I got my first job working for Eastman Kodak where I
developed a love for the art of photography.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
WHO IS LINDSAY DONALD?
I specialize in international photo-journalism.
My interests are Chess, The films of Alfred Hitchcock,Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, Athletics.
HANSIB PUBLICATION AND LINDSAY DONALD
For over seven years I would be chief photographer & picture-editor of a European, main-stream, black-led publishing house, Hansib Publication.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
LINDSAY DONALD BRIEFCASE BRIMMING WITH NEGATIVES
The Joplin Globe, Saturday, August, 22, 1981.
"It is difficult to prove to someone who has not seen the physical evidence that something that has 'vanished' was ever really there. It is hard to sell a book on photographs a person says he once had, unless by chance they would be returned. It is equally as difficult to make someone believe they were ever there. But Donald says they were."
The Joplin Globe, Sunday, August, 23, 1981.
"Lindsay Donald returned to the offices of The Joplin Globe. He had lucked out. The briefcase was brimming with negatives and his face full of joy."
BROTHER KUMI & THE LEGEND DISCUSS SURVIVAL
I was to take this photograph in 1980 whilst working on probably the only Rastafarian newspaper ever published. Survival. In the frame are Mr. Robert Nesta Marley, left, the publisher, and second right, Mr. Mortimo Planno, the editor. Mr Planno, or 'Brother Kummi', was the gentleman who taught Mr. Marley the principles of Rastafari and other things. It has recently come to ones attention that this is a rare image capturing both together. This photograph will adorn the book, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS, due to be published in August, 2012.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
LINDSAY THROUGH THE YEARS
I have traversed the Sahara Desert.
Five times Malaria has knocked I down and I survived.
I was incarcerated for months because some thought I worked for the CIA.
For two weeks, whilst Bob was in Europe, I slept in Bob Marley's bed at 56 Hope Road, Kingston.
On his return, neither Bob nor I could figure out how or why.
As a Survivor from Survival, a battle was lost a war still to be won.
The paradox of it all is that we use our eyes to see, yet our eyes cannot see our eyes.
Let the fun begin.
We have a book, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS to publish.
Time to kick ass.
Peace you lot.
FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI AFRIKA SHRINE
In 1968, Fela Anikulapo-kuti announced the arrival of Afrobeat; within the year he was promoting his sound all over the USA on a 10-month tour where he became influenced by American jazz. When he returned to his homeland (Nigeria), he opened a nightclub: the Shrine.
Shrine was originally known as Afro spot, a nightclub that Fela rented called Kakadu. He then moved to Surulere nightclub and later on Empire hotel. Here was where he made the original shrine his place of worship and he was known as the Chief Priest of the Africa Shrine.
In 1977 soldiers burned Fela’s house and the Government seized the Africa Shrine. In fact, the whole area where he lived was seized. He now found land situated on Pepple Street in Ikeja environ of Lagos town, rented the land and built the Africa Shrine- his place of worship and a place where he performed.
Unfortunately the owners of the land didn’t share his ideals and soon moved to evict him off this land. In Fela’s lifetime the court had plagued him and at the time he died they were bent on taking back the land. Femi his first son and his family tried all they could to get them to sell the land but to no avail.
Femi now decided to leave the building since it was impossible to persuade them, carrying the “Shrine” itself and moved it to a new place, he built the NEW AFRICA SHRINE in Agidingbi – Ikeja. He built a befitting Mecca of Afrobeat in honor of a great man and here Fela is regarded as a Deity.
FELA KUTI AND LINDSAY DONALD
Amongst those images were also images of Mr. Stevie Wonder performing with Fela at his club, The African Shrine.
After the incident at Fela's home I was incarcerated for five months on the grounds of being a CIA spy.
I was blessed once again, when in 1995, Fela came to London to give a lecture.
After a good laugh about the old days, I was to photograph him some two years before he died.
Those photographs are embargoed and will adorn the book, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS, due to be published in August, 2012.
After the incident at Fela's home I was incarcerated for five months on the grounds of being a CIA spy.
I was blessed once again, when in 1995, Fela came to London to give a lecture.
After a good laugh about the old days, I was to photograph him some two years before he died.
Those photographs are embargoed and will adorn the book, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS, due to be published in August, 2012.
Monday, December 5, 2011
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