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Noel Norton photographed at his Westmall studio.  Yesterday I offered a perspective on the work of two good friends at the launch of Minshall by Norton, a book celebrating the art of Peter Minshall as captured by Noel Norton. This is an excerpt. You can read the whole statement at Trinigoodmedia.com (Link in bio) "What Noel and Mary Norton did across more than five decades was to set an unsurpassed example of commitment to the documentation of culture in Trinidad and Tobago generally and to Carnival specifically. But they did one more critical thing. The Nortons showed photographers what self-respect looks like through their industrious and methodical preservation and curation of their work. This was not a common approach to photography in this country. The concept of a coherent, organised oeuvre of work examining a single subject and created with a singular vision is not commonplace here. To be sure, the notion of  preserving anything at all seems to continuously elude us. And if film was fragile, modern photography is even more tenuous. Most bodies of modern  work are one electromagnetic glitch from being reduced to digital gibberish." #archive #lyndersaydigital  #trinidad #photographer #carnival #history #minshall #peterminshall #trinidadandtobago #documentation #filmphotography #photography #thenortoncollection #thelyndersayarchive (at The Falls at Westmall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5yZTNYpjLa/?igshid=1eib7ibjgqrcw

Minshall Mas 2018. Soul Food Lime. Thank you for your interest in Minshall Mas 2018. Our affordable prices will be posted Friday 5 January. If you are in T&T, we would love you to join us for a lime on Friday 5 January, at Kaiso Blues, 85 Woodford Street, Port of Spain, 8:00 PM onward. Costume drawings will be on display and we'll be on hand to answer questions and provide any information.

Peter Minshall, Kathryn Chan, and Exodus Steel Orchestra playing mas in Carnival 2017

Peter Minshall, Kathryn Chan, and Exodus Steel Orchestra playing mas in Carnival 2017

Peter Minshall, Kathryn Chan, and Exodus Steel Orchestra playing mas in Carnival 2017

I had seen Moko Jumbies all my life. But one day, suddenly, I thought: my God, he is a ballerina on toes. I added a little toe and calf and somehow it makes him look like a creature from Alice in Wonderland. This is not a costume, it is a mas. On Thursday night, Jha-whan played the mas. - Peter Minshall, interviewed on his new mas 'The Dying Swan' at http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,223352.html #Minshall #JhawhanThomas #TheDyingSwan (at Queen's Park Savannah)

REPOST from @ashraphr65 /// #Repost @ashraphr65 // a closeup of Peter Minshall's 'Dying Swan" in the King of Carnival Costume Competition Prelims last night. ・・・ #dyingswan #themas #theatre #trinidadandtobago #minshall #carnival2016