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Dragged into the Vortex...

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Who is the 'Afflicted Kid'

For all the people who ask me who the crazy-looking grinning kid is on the site:  HER name is actually Rochelle aka 'Rochie'--a child prodigy ( amazingly talented violinist ) and little sister of my friend Talia.

The photo with her grinning with those stupid glasses was taken in St. Thomas on the beach in 1999 when she was only 6. I liked it so much I made it my trademark.

She's 13 now but according to Talia she's : '...the same but grouchier and has more teeth.'

Now you know.

'Moment Of Zen'?

Jamaica Gleaner Sat. March 24, 2007

Front Page (below): Weeping Widow Woolmer.

Slain Cricket Coach Bob Woolmer's Widow and her son Dale...weeping...sorta.

Back Page (below): Meanwhile back at the media Afterparty...

Top White Police DCP Mark Shields  answers a few questions for the overjoyed international media at the Pegasus Hotel where Woolmer is alleged to have been strangled. Click the photo for a better look--its worth it.

Missionaries of the Poor

Two years after the tragic and mysterious shooting of two of their own ( SEE THIS STORY ), a visit to Father Holang's Missionaries of Poor in Downtown Kingston indicates business-as-usual for these Catholic Missionaries who dedicate their lives to helping Jamaica's poorest of the poor.

These photographs were taken at three locations: Lord's Place (care for children, the infirm, mentally unstable persons and HIV+ patients) , Bethlehem ( Hospice and care of handicapped and abandoned children) and at the Missionary's North Street address where two brothers were killed by one bullet as they stood washing dishes in 2005 (see photo below ).

The implications of that tragedy were really very serious when one considers that the bullet was probably meant to kill and not an accident as some people seem to believe ( possibly because its too embarrassing for the country to know that someone would actually murder people who dedicate their lives to helping the throw-a-ways of society).

Needless to say, many of the things I saw at Lord's Place and Bethlehem were quite difficult for me to handle, much less to publish,and if truth be told, there was nothing I could photograph that could properly convey the gravity of what these people do...as a matter of choice.

http://www.afflictedyard.com/missionariesofthepoor.htm

Sunday Beach

http://www.afflictedyard.com/sundaybeach.htm

Friday Morning Market in Porus

 

 

Just another Friday morning behind the market in the community of Porus, Jamaica.

Only two of the men working at this slaughterhouse would do the actual killing  since the process requires a good deal of experience and horror stories of big hogs that got away during the killing process are sometimes gruesome.

As the photographs will show, these animals have huge teeth and are very capable of seriously hurting or killing a grown man.

Enjoy.

http://afflictedyard.com/porus1.htm
http://afflictedyard.com/porus2.htm

Miami..with a big lens

300mm! This thing should be fun in Kingston.

http://afflictedyard.com/afflicted_miami.htm