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Capturing The Past
Korey Rowe (left), Saint InternationalFashionface of the Caribbean winner for2011, attended the launch with his friendTiffany Davidson.
Lifestyle, Local Lifestyle, Style, Style Observer, Tuesday Style
January 26, 2013

Capturing The Past

Fine art documentary photographer Wyatt Gallery is eager to reconnect with his Jewish part. The American-born photog is on the Rock (part of his island-hopping excursion) to document Jewish monuments for his latest in-progress assignment.

S O caught up with Gallery — toting his Canon camera and outfitted in a white tee and cargo shorts — last Monday at the Orange Street Jewish Cemetery where he was shooting the gravestones of ancestors, some who were born in the 19th century. He’s intent on documenting their final resting place, which he bemoans has fallen into decay.

It’s a similar trend Gallery has noticed in other Caribbean islands. “Most of the two dozen original cemeteries are either falling apart, or have been lost to natural disasters,” he shares.

Gallery is no stranger to documenting Caribbean countries that have experienced ruin. Indeed, his most recently published project Tent Life Haiti, a naked but hopeful photo book on the tumultuous aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti received worldwide press recognition and sold out its first edition in just three months.

His most recent book Jewish Treasures of the Caribbean takes the form of a photo book and travelling exhibition exploring the little-known history of Jews in the Caribbean. The remaining monuments which the book will highlight are the oldest synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in the Western hemisphere. Judging from the beautiful prelude we’ve been granted, we can expect Gallery’s new book to be in extremely high demand.

–Chenee Daley

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fine art documentary photographer Wyatt Gallery. (Photos: Wyatt Gallery)
A forgotten Jewish tombstone from the 1700s lies hidden bybush in one of the oldest cemeteries in Jamaica located inSpanish Town.
The Holy Torahs — read by the Rabbi during services.
A woman walks past the Shaare Shalom Synagogue located on Duke street indowntown Kingston. (Photos: Wyatt Gallery)
Floor covered in sand, a tradition of the Sephardic Jews who fledthe Inquisition in Spain and Portugal in the late-1400s.
Prayer shawls or Tallitot, worn over the shoulders by men who have been Bar Mitzvahed.
View of the Shaare Shalom Synagogue from the Tebah, an elevated area where the Rabbi reads from the Torah.

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