Gina Maingot, Mas Designer

     Mas, short for Masquerade, is the act of playing a costumed character in Trinidad Carnival. This multimedia piece looks at Mas Designer, Gina Maingot.     		 

    Christopher Houlihan

     This multimedia slide show combines photography and sound to present organist Christopher Houlihan in an engaging and descriptive format.

 

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    Nathan Kirschbaum

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    I have had the pleasure of living in Connecticut and working as a photographer for the past eight years. As a student at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, I spent my time exploring History, American Political Thought, and Multimedia Photojournalism. Since receivng my bachelors degree, I have continued to add to my experiences and hone my creative skills. I feel very fortunate that my work has not only taken me throughout New England, but also to Belgium, Cambodia, France, Germany, Guinea, the Netherlands, Senegal, and Thailand.



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    I am a graduating senior at Trinity College, where I am studying Studio Arts. I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to study photography in Trinidad, Cambodia, New York, and Hartford, CT. At Trinity, my work is heavily focused on digital documentary and on allowing the content of a story drive the medium for its communication. I am currently finishing up my senior thesis, a documentary film, about the Sodade of Capeverdeans in America. For more information on my thesis film, please visit andreawisemedia.com/sodade





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Glimpse into Hinduism in Trinidad

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  Mar 20th, 2010 | by Andrea


These images follow a series of glimpses that I’ve had over the past couple weeks into Hinduism in Trinidad. These images are from the Temple in the Sea in Waterloo, from the 85 foot Hanuman Murti in Carapichaima, which is the largest Hanuman Murti outside of India, and from the Saturday portion of Phagwa at The Kendra in Enterprise.

J’ouvert Morning 2010

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  Mar 7th, 2010 | by Andrea


These photos are from my favorite part of Carnival in Trinidad. J’ouvert (prounounced “joo-vay”) is a morning celebration, beginning around 2am on Carnival Monday when masqueraders take to the streets, covered in paint, mud, oil, and chocolate, dancing until day break. The word J’ouvert stems from the French words “jour ouvert” or “open day”. As with all Trinidad Carnival traditions, J’ouvert is a creolized tradition with multiple origins that have blended and evolved through the years. My J’ouvert morning was slightly non-traditional as I spent half of the morning on a beer truck, keeping a girl with an injured ankle company. The result was a very different perspective than on the ground. It was interesting to observe the masqueraders, and especially to note the marked difference in body language between the local people who understood the cultural significance of the event and the tourists who carried themselves as if this event was nothing more than the wildest street party they’d ever attended. Regardless, the energy was palpable, as were the bodies of masqueraders covered in mud, sweat, and paint. The greatest moment for me, however, was the moment when the sun crept up above the horizon. After hours of dancing and parading through the streets, the sunrise really was magical.

Blue Devils, Paramin Village

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  Feb 27th, 2010 | by Andrea


On the evening of February 15th, Carnival Monday in Trinidad and Tobago, I took a windy and very steep drive up the mountain in Maraval to Paramin Village to see one of the traditional Carnival characters, the Blue Devils, “perform.” I put “perform” in quotations because, as anyone who has seen Trinidad’s Blue Devils knows, they do not simply dance and sing for the audience’s entertainment– they get right in your face and scare you into giving them money. I had studied the Blue Devils in a couple of my classes so I thought I knew what to expect by way of their interactions, and I had seen a preview a few days prior in Port of Spain for a historical reenactment of the 1881 Camboulay Riots that my group participated in. The Blue Devils were in fact terrifying but for some reason that I still can’t explain, I had assumed that the Devils would leave me alone if I had my camera out. I was wrong.


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