slide show with music showing the natural and urban features of Manado and surrounding area. Manado is on the north part of Indonesia’s Island of Suluwesi. Please note the end title should be Dvorak String quartet no 12, I will re edit.
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A video showcasing a number of photos from my trip through Europe. For stories and more photos visit www.citadel-of-light.com
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MOKO JUMBIES: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad
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This is my first book resulting from a long term project with the ‘Dragon’ Keylemanjahro School of Art & Culture in Cocorite, Trinidad. The school teaches children the art of dancing on stilts and they show off their skills in the annual Carnival parades.
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About the book:
A Photographic Essay of the Stilt-Walkers (Moko Jumbies) of Trinidad and Tobago
Seventeen years ago, Glen “Dragon” de Souza founded the Keylemanjahro School of Arts and Culture on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. The school’s mission was to revive the almost forgotten West African tradition of the Moko Jumbie or “stilt-walker,” and adopt it into the annual Carnival celebration. Not only would it restore a centuries-old tribal custom that had been squashed by colonialism and slavery, but also de Souza dreamed it would keep underprivileged children from street-life and drugs.
Today, more than one hundred Moko Jumbies‹boys and girls starting from the age of four years old‹practice at the Keylemanjahro School. Internationally recognized photographer Stefan Falke spent six years documenting these “dancing spirits” of Trinidad. With rare power, he captures the vivid costumes and haunting beauty of the Moko Jumbie dances in over 200 dazzling color photographs.
Moko Jumbies: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad celebrates the success of this spectacular movement that has not only enriched the lives of its participants and all the people who live and visit Trinidad, but also the enduring culture of the island itself.
Stefan Falke was born in Germany in 1956. He abandoned his studies in civil engineering to follow a passion for documentary photography. His photographs and movie stills have been published in major international magazines and his work from the book has been shown at the international photojournalism festival ‘Visa Pour L’Image’ in Perpignan/France. He began talking pictures of the Moko Jumbies in 1997, a year after he had seen them for the first time in Trinidad. In 1999, he became a member of laif (www.laif.de ), one of the leading agencies for photojournalism, magazine and travel photography in Germany. He lives in New York City. This is his first book.
Preface by Geoffrey Holder
Introduction by Earl Lovelace
Photography/Travel
hardcover
ISBN: 0-9727661-3-8
216 pages: Over 200 photographs
Pointed Leaf Press
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We made this video for a few silly reasons:
1) I wanted people to see basically where I lived and what kind of city Belfast is — it’s not all petrol bombs and rioting anymore
2) I got a camcorder a few days ago and wanted to give it a proper test drive
3) I wanted to make a video that had a lot of clips and good music!
This is the city centre of where I live. The footage was shot over a few hours and was edited by me (amateur editor and cameraboy!)
Stick around; it only lasts a few minutes. Comments/responses are appreciated. Enjoy!
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Travel photography of our Arosa River Cruise down the Danube, one of Europe’s greatest rivers, which ran from Passau in Germany through Vienna, Esztergom and Budapest in Hungary, Bratislava (Slovakia) and finally in the lovely and historic Wachau Valley in Austria. A charming holiday, with my wife Christiane and her parents who invited us. In this section, We begin out cruise from Passau down through the Austrian countryside.
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A slideshow of our wedding in Marrakech. We first obtained our marriage license from the civil authorities in Berlin. Then we flew to Morocco that evening for the ceremony. Photography by Frank Nürnberger
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His Excellency Mr. Laleshwar Singh, High Commissioner, London, introducing Travel & Tourism photographer, Ian Brierley, at an exhibition of his images of Guyana, at the High Commision in London, 14 May 2008.
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Photos from The Gambia during Tabaski holidays. Music by Daby Toure. Visit http://kirszen.blogspot.com
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Don McLean’s famous song Starry Night, a tribute to Vincent Van Gogh, one of the greatest painter the world has known.
Van Gogh spent his early life working for a firm of art dealers and after a brief spell as a teacher, became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially he only worked with somber colors, until an encounter in Paris with Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, whose brighter colours and style of painting he developed into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during time spent at Arles.
He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, and committed suicide.
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A week’s worth of Madrid Spain. Original photgraphy with Spanish inspired music. Photos taken in late July, 2003
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