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Ria Bacon, Photographer

Ria — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:16:11 +0000

Another string to my fiddle, to add to those of editor, translator and trainer — marked by the first time I have been paid for one of my photos!

Here it is, a double half-page spread in the New York Magazine.

Regular readers of this blog may have already seen the picture gracing the

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Deep in it

Ria — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:14:30 +0000

Just heard that our stuff, including essential babyware and car, will now be leaving Dakar around the date it was supposed to arrive in the Netherlands. Apparently the delay is due to congestion in the port. The whole coast of Africa must be gridlocked if it takes two weeks to clear the way to port.

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Leaving this place

Ria — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:35:31 +0000

I’m not profligate with my categories (nor with my posts). So when I see that I have 22 posts in the category “Leaving this place”, I know that I’ve been leaving more than I’ve been staying these last few years.

And on a night like this, at 1:13 am, with the cold Harmattan wind whipping

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Ghetto can’t hold you back

Ria — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:51:30 +0000

The athletics results this last week in Beijing represent the summum of success for Jamaican runners, putting them in first place in the gold medal league table, equal with Russia and ahead of the US.

Bear in mind that Jamaica has a population of only 2.7 million.

The first gold medal went to Shelly-Ann

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Sidi Mansour vs Ma Baker

Ria — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:51:40 +0000

Life in Kingston, Jamaica was sometimes like living in a war zone: occasional bursts of excitement — driving after dark through a ghetto zone, boarding up the windows as a hurricane approached — interspersed with long periods of boredom, for the city does not offer much in the way of amusement for a young family

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Ras le bol

Ria — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:43:38 +0000

Ria Bacon has left the island.

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Shaking Up Orange Street

Ria — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:22:23 +0000

Part II of my downtown tour should be loading below. It took a little longer to finish than I’d hoped, partly because I wanted to make it look better than my previous clip, and partly because uploading it to YouTube is very very slow.

As I’ve recommended previously, if your bandwidth is as bad as

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Driver! Don’t stop at all

Ria — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:34:31 +0000

Drawing to the end of my series of images of downtown Kingston, I post below the first part of a drive I took last week with my good friend, Barry White.

I know, it’s the voice.

If all goes according to plan, Part II will include a drive round the main square, Sir William Grant

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De time so bleaky

Ria — Tue, 15 May 2007 04:58:02 +0000

The title of this post refers to the overcast skies we’ve been having lately in Kingston. For photography, the stark whiteness is something terrible to deal with. No amount of fiddling with contrast or brightness can save the sky because there is simply no data recorded. This means an extra step or two in the

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I cover the waterfront

Ria — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:01:36 +0000

Downtown Kingston ends at the waterfront and the wide expanse of the seventh largest natural harbour in the world. Morris Cargill, veteran journalist at The Daily Gleaner, described it more equivocally as “the world’s most beautiful sewer”, as tons of garbage are washed down the gullies running through the city, straight into the water; and,

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