#kyle walcott

             There is so much to explore around the Savannah around Carnival time, as the excitement builds towards Monday and Tuesday. Kyle and I went to see what we could photograph a couple of weeks before the true excitement started (read: after the vendor huts were painted but before they were bastardized by bmobile branding).

I’ve wanted to get into the renovated Boissiere House (history

Kyle Walcott at Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival

  So Kyle is sneaky.

Unbeknownst to me, he has a film in the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, a short Documentary, Glass Bottom Boat which is in competition for three awards at the festival, Best Short Film – Documentary, Best Local Short Film – Documentary, and People’s Choice Award.

I’m so mad at him.

One of my goals for this blog is to promote Kyle and his work and he not telling me the…

Mistress of My Domain: 100 Posts

This is officially my 100th post on what once was http://whirldwind.wordpress.com and is now, officially, http://www.citiesandislands.com (for those who have wondered, I do in fact know how to spell whirlwind btw. The original URL was a cheeky play on a common Trini malapropism.)

Anyway I’ve been super grateful and excited about the positive feedback both Kyle and I have been getting on…

Truck on D (Side of D) Road

So there are two empty trailer trucks parked on the side of the Diego Martin Highway and I was super excited to shoot in them. Why? I see these trucks as a metaphor for my current Carnival situation. For those who don’t know, the trailer truck is really the heart of contemporary Trinidad Carnival. As controversial as the number of trucks on the road during Carnival Monday and…