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Journey of a Soul: The Life and Work of Betty Blayton Taylor

February 6, 2017 by Mariamma Kambon

“I think that every child should have an opportunity to explore the arts, just like they have an opportunity to learn how to write and to count. A youngster who has had exposure to the arts is a youngster who is going to be more creative, more capable of learning; will have more enthusiasm for learning and particularly, will be in a position to explore potential, as opposed to the rote learning that goes into A-B-C. If you allow a […]

Categories: Personalities, Uncategorized • Tags: all is one, Alleyne Houser Blayton, Arnold Prince, art, artist, artist-in-residence, Barbara Blayton Richardson, Betty Blayton, Betty Blayton Taylor, Bruton Heights, Buddhism, Charlotte Amalie, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Children's Art Carnival, creative, culture, Dr. James Blayton, family, Film, Harlem, Harlem Textile Works, Jean-Michel Basquiat, LeRoy Clarke, Mariamma Kambon, meditation, Michael Kelly Williams, New York City, North Carolina, Omar Blayton, painter, painting, Palmer Memorial Institute, photography, play, portraits, sculptor, Sedalia, self-reflective, St. Thomas, studio museum of harlem, The Bronx, Trinidad and Tobago, Virginia, Williamsburg, Zevilla Preston Jackson

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Notes for Alton Sterling

July 11, 2016 by Mariamma Kambon

Intro A video of the cold, violent execution of a prone Black man by white police officers opened my very first day in Louisiana. In transit I may have imagined the famed streets of New Orleans – the fertile land that has nourished Jazz and Rhythm-and-Blues; superb cuisine that just might be reminiscent of my own well-seasoned Caribbean fare; and a renowned debauchery that marks the place as vibrant and outrageous. Alton Sterling’s murder at the hands of NOPD served […]

Categories: Activism, Uncategorized • Tags: African American, African Diaspora, Alton Sterling, Baton Rouge, community, execution, family, freedom, grief, Jo Hines, John C. Mutter, justice, Louisiana, Mariamma Kambon, Michael Eric Dyson, mural, murder, photography, Police brutality, protest, race-based oppression, racism, resistance, Trinidad and Tobago, Triple S Convenience Store

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THERE (Yankee) – A curatorial project

May 24, 2016 by Mariamma Kambon

To stand in front of one of the photographs made by emerging photographer, Sasha Phyars-Burgess, is to stand at the point where documentary and art collide. In line with the wave of photographers creating imagery from positions of marginality, Phyars-Burgess has made use of the technology of photography as a tool for self-reflexivity and self-redefinition. She has examined aspects of contemporary Trinidadian life from the vantage point of a first-generation American grounded in the culture of this distant, yet familiar […]

Categories: Exhibition, Personalities, Uncategorized • Tags: African American, African Diaspora, back and white, Bard College, brooklyn, caribbean, Caribbean Diaspora, Cornell MFA, cornell university, documentary, En Foco, Exhibition, family, fine art, Harlem, ICP, identity, immigrant, International Center of Photography, Mariamma Kambon, migration, Mink Building, New York, Pennsylvania, photographer, photography, photojournalism, Sasha Phyars-Burgess, SoHarlem, transnational West Indian family, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidadian, west indian, yankee

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The Son of the Prophet Journeys to the Land of the Believers

April 22, 2016 by Mariamma Kambon

The earliest image of my family was captured with Marcus Garvey’s portrait occupying the position typically reserved for White Jesus in the West Indian home.   “Children, children! Children, children! Humble yourself and be calm, one day somehow You’ll remember him, you will No one remember old Marcus Garvey No one remember old Marcus Garvey Garvey’s old, yet young Garvey’s old, yet young” – Old Marcus Garvey, Burning Spear   “My trod was in the livity and order. I honored […]

Categories: Personalities, Uncategorized • Tags: African Diaspora, African Liberation, black god, Black Power, Bob Marley, breadfruit trees, Burning Spear, caribbean, Clyde Noel, colonialism, dreadlocks, Ethiopia, family, family portrait, flags, food independence, Haile Selassie, Harris Promenade, In the Lion's Den, Jamaica, Julius Garvey, Junior Bisnath, luz de tu sonrisa, luzdetusonrisa, Marcus Garvey, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Mariamma Kambon, New York, photography, postcolonial, prophet, Ras Daniel, rasta, Rastafari, Rastafarian, red black and green, resistance, San Fernando, Steel Pulse, Trini Levi, Trinidad and Tobago, twelve tribes, Twelve Tribes of Israel, white jesus, Worth his weight in gold

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Shaking Paper

July 18, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

The story “Asha Means Life”, told in boxes made of wooden photographs, was on display in the Olive Tjaden Gallery at Cornell University between October 15-26, 2012, in the group show entitled “Shaking Paper”.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: arts, Asha Darbeau, Asha Means Life, caribbean, cornell university, dance, dream, Exhibition, family, immigrant, Ithaca, miami, milled photograph, motherhood, New York, photography, shaking paper, show, single parent, wooden boxes, wooden photograph

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The Wooden Photograph

June 27, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

I exchanged the role of observer for that of storyteller. The task at hand was the synthesis of the hundreds of images created throughout the year of shooting, with memories of the family and my most striking impressions of Asha’s life

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: 3D photograph, Asha Means Life, children, choreography, dance, dream, dreams, family, heirloom, milled photograph, monument, motherhood, photography, Unearthed, video, wooden boxes, wooden photograph

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The Birth of Earth

June 27, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

She danced almost until the moment of the birth of her fourth child . . .

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Asha Means Life, baby, Birthday, child, childbirth, children, choreography, dance, family, Florida, Know Thyself, labor, miami, Miami Dade, Michelle Murray, midwife, Mother, motherhood, natural childbirth, newborn, Now I Know, photography, pregnancy, pregnant, Sheila Simms, single parent, Son, Stephen Marley, Unearthed, water birth

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Speaking of Gender Roles

June 7, 2012 by Mariamma Kambon

Recently the blogger, barefoot, interviewed my mother, providing insight into the life of a woman who has always challenged convention.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: barefoot, breakfast, cats, family, gender, Mother, photography, Trinidad and Tobago

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The Modern Parent

June 7, 2012 by Mariamma Kambon

This scene reminded me of one expressed in stone from antiquity. It’s a modern take on an ancient classic.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Africa, Antiquity, Blair Cariah, Djibril, Eqypt, family, Father, Horus, Isis, Kemet, Son, Toco, Trinidad and Tobago

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