The Young Cats of Canadian Photojournalism
Reporter Chris Lackner and I spent the night in the Old Augusta Jail built in 1811 and held many runaway slaves over the years.
94 year-old Iva Johnson live alone. Her grandmother was a slave.
94 year old Iva Johnson play piano and sings every week at church service.
Jerry Gore, a griot in the West African tradition poses in the hiding cell under the bay window of his museum's house in Maysville, KY.
Jackson Bennett, 71, has made a living working with his hands all his life. The same hands that came within an inch of beating his former white boss if his father had not intervened.
Tyrion Fox 7 year-old resident of May's Lick, KY.
Jerry Gore shows us the weight of slavery from his private collection of slave artifacts.
A hillbilly encounter on the road.
Jerry Gore poses for a photo in an old slave jail in the basement of his Underground Railroad museum property in Maysville, KY,
Jerry Gore poses for a photo in an old delapitated "Colored School" house.
The Young Cats of Canadian Photojournalism
Hi all. Malcolm Taylor here from the road in Ohio. I'm currently on a long-term project for the Ottawa Citizen following a route of the Underground Railroad From northern Kentucky thru Ohio and up into Ontario arriving on Labour Day. Here are a few pics from the road. You can follow reproter Chris Lackner and myself all summer at http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/freedom/index.html.
Here are some of my favourite pics from the journey so far. Enjoy. Cheers, Malcolm
posted by photogs at 10:30 PM
6 Comments:
YO MT! fantastic work!
and welcome to the blog!!
Holy shit! For a job that no one wanted to take, you did an amazing job!
Hey Malcolm, good to hear from you. Welcome to the blog. Nice work from down south too. Really solid.
Joe O
nice portraits Malcolm.
seems like an interesting assignment. Keep it up.
colin
Thanks for the feedback everyone. It's much appreciated out here on the road, cut-off from everything. The trip is going well over-all. It's very challenging to make interesting pictures of an historical event which basically boils down to shooting portraits of descendants, or interview shots, scenery and old places/architecture. It's difficult to find activities to shoot. The major art stuff for the twice weekly features in the paper are planned location portraits, which I try to shoot with available light as much as possible. But in dark, hiding cellars and jail cells it's difficult. But I'm using lanterns and candles with a tripod for moody stuff. So far that has really been the most successful. It's the best way so far that I've found to recapture a time that's more than 150 years ago. I think atmospherically it is the only way to do it. Any suggestions would be more than welcome.
P.S. Congrats to Colin and Chris for getting into Barnstorm.
Cheers,
Malcolm
Yeah - Malcolm, I'll definitely add my hello and clapping hands to the pics. Great story too, must be a fun job.
Nice to hear from you too, it's been ages.
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