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Words by Jesse Serwer—
Peter Simon is one of few photographers who have documented reggae from its early days all the way through the present. His photos of people like Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Toots and Sly and Robbie are some of reggae’s most iconic images, and his work illustrated one of the earliest and best known books on reggae, 1977′s Reggae Bloodlines: In Search of the Music and Culture of Jamaica.
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Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, photos by Jonathan Mannion via The FADER
As a follow up to their (and my) double cover Icon feature on Shabba Ranks, Fader just posted an exclusive photo set of the Grammy-winner’s last Madison Square Garden cameo from top celebrity photographer Jonathan Mannion–along with some reminiscence on the artist’s impact on his work. Ready or not, it seems like it’s Shabba’s moment for a return to public consciousness, so we may be seeing more of the Ranks than we have in years if this trend continues…check the rest of the shoot and read the full story here.
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words by Eddie STATS Houghton
Photographer extraodinaire Jeff Antebi, who blessed us with some of his beautiful images of Haiti back in January is having a show of his work at the Creative Photography Workshops in Los Angeles. If you’re in LA, go check it out, you won’t regret it. That is all.
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Words by Eddie STATS Houghton
We decided to profile Darhil Crooks on Large Up because we were pretty sure you didn‘t know that the same cat who designed album covers and tees for Buju Banton also happened to be the trendsetting art director of the award-winning Esquire magazine and we wanted to put you up. But once we sat down to reason with him, we started learning all kinds of things that even we didn’t know–like which former Jamaican Prime Minister happens to be his grandfather, about the time Dave Chappelle wore one of his t-shirts and how he came into possession of a miniature replica of Barack Obama’s head. In fact we learned so much we might have to break this interview into two parts. Maybe you better get started:
