In Trinidad 
Photographs by Pablo Delano 
  
Introduction by Peter Minshall 
Essays by Milla Cozart Riggio and Gordon Rohlehr 
  
 
  
With stunning visual imagery, photographer Pablo Delano captures the spirit of post-colonial Trinidad. An extraordinary collection of over 120 black and photographs lavishly reproduced in duotone with full colour accents throughout, In Trinidad conveys the essence of a uniquely inter-cultural multi-racial Caribbean People. From the magnificence of Minshall Mas to the power of children performing Hindu Ramleela plays, Trinidadians are captured at work and at play, at worship and at celebration. More than just a book of pictures, In Trinidad defies the stereotypical depiction of the Caribbean as sand, sea and sun and instead encapsulates the complex energy of an island nation and its people. 
  
 
Accompanying the photographs are essays by cultural analyst Milla Cozart Riggio and by Professor Emeritus and Calypso Scholar Gordon Rohlehr. The work is introduced by Trinidadian masman Peter Minshall who shares with Delano the astounding ability to portray human energy. 
  
 
Spanning more than a decade of work, In Trinidad is an evocative and enthralling collection.  
  
 
  
Pablo Delano was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and was introduced to the art of photography at an early age by his father the renowned photographer, Jack Delano. After studying painting in the US, he began documenting Hispanic and Caribbean communities in various New York City Neighbourhoods. Pablo Delano’s Photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world and his book of photographs Faces of America, was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in 1992. He teaches photography at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.  
  
 
Milla Cozart Riggio is the James J. Goodwin Professor of English, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut and has taught at the University of the West Indies. She has worked in theatre for the past twenty years and has written extensively on Trinidad Carnival and other dramatic and festive traditions. Her most recent edited book is Carnival: Culture in Action- the Trinidad Experience (2004). 
  
 
Peter Minshall describes himself as a Caribbean, a richly textured, multi-layered hybrid, at once robustly coarse and primitive and perfectly refined. He trained in Carnival design in the streets of Port of Spain, and in theatre design in London. Since the 1970s he has pioneered the ‘living art’ of the mas and became the foremost Carnival artist of the Caribbean. He has designed ceremonies of the Barcelona and Atlanta Summer Olympics and the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. A Guggenheim Fellow and Emmy Award winner, he has been emulated and honoured around the world. 
  
 
Gordon Rohlehr is Professor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. He has written extensively on West Indian literature, oral poetry, calypso and the popular culture of the Caribbean. He is the author of several highly acclaimed books including Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (1990), A Scuffling of Islands: Essays on the Calypso (2004), and most recently Transgression, Transition, Transformation: Essays in Caribbean Culture (2007). 
  
 
978-976-637-370-2,

US$75.00,

Hardback,

176 pages,

10x10, October