Rest In Peace Teddy Pendergrassread the story behind these images here.

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Please check out new post on Jonathan’s trip to Jamaica now live on the We Resist Simple blog.Here is a small excerpt from the entry:

“On a breezy Saturday afternoon at Café Noir downtown NYC with the smoothest set of Reggae courtesy of my friend Liondub lifting up the vibes, my longtime assistant and great friend Thanis said to me, “You have to photograph artists in Jamaica, it’s such a big passion of yours.” He added that if I didn’t arrange it by the end of April ‘09 that he would “punch me in the face”… he was serious. Needless to say, I took the warning and booked our flights, along with one for one of the greatest graphic designers in the business Rebecca Meek and we were off to Kingston.

I spent the next few days photographing some of the greatest artists in Jamaica today… Sly Dunbar, Cutty Ranks, Glen Browne, The Mystical Revelation of Rastafari, Muta Baruka, Mbala & ????. I was also blessed to shoot with Gene Pearson, an unbelievable sculptor who makes beautiful clay masks…

 …We’ll be back to continue the project and uplift the real pioneers of Reggae and Dub.”

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Welcome to the “DIME” good people! The beginning of a new decade… 2010.

May we all be blessed, inspired and fulfilled throughout the year!  Health, wealth and joy!

I was recently asked by Tanqueray and Team Epiphany to join an amazing collection of creative minds and become a part of their groundbreaking blog WeResistSimple.com!

It is with great pleasure that I join this incredible roster of people, such as Vashtie, Dao-Yi Chow, Coltrane Curtis, Eddie Cruz, Hill Harper, Sal Masekela and many others who have been carefully chosen to represent “US” and what it means to Resist Simple. 

By “US” I mean the culture that is one of the most colorful, focused and powerful people in the universe: musicians, designers, actors… In a word, ARTISTS, and resisting simple is exactly that, not doing the minimum or most basic job, but rather rising to any challenge and setting the bar high within your field all the while creating things of real beauty and importance for the world to enjoy.

Click here to read more on www.weresistsimple.com

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