Field notes
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Greater Antilles · 2023

Jamaica

The essay

What's magical about this country?

Jamaica hums. It hums under your feet in the drum of a distant sound system, it hums in the clatter of a market on a Saturday morning, it hums in the laughter of aunties who barely know you but already love you. I spent three weeks between Kingston and Treasure Beach with a film camera and no plan, and every frame came back sounding like a bassline.

Miss Enid — Coronation Market, Kingston
Miss Enid — Coronation Market, Kingston
Boats at dawn — Treasure Beach
Boats at dawn — Treasure Beach
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