OLD JAMAICA

Photographing the island that raised us, before it changes.

Zinc fences and cut-stone churches. Great houses losing their roofs to the bush. Fishing beaches that still work the way they did fifty years ago. This is a long-term photographic record of Jamaican heritage, culture, and landscape — made by someone who lives here, for everyone who carries this island with them.

A bustling Friday Evening in St Anns’s Bay

Fishing by first Light at Folly Lighthouse

Old Anglican Church in Port Antonio

Why this work matters: Jamaica is developing fast. Some of what makes this island itself — the architecture, the coastlines, the old ways — won't survive the next twenty years. Photography can't stop that, but it can immortalize it properly.

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Not every frame gets planned. This one happened between setups on a client shoot up in the Blue Mountains — the kind of light I wouldn’t normally chase, but it was too strange and too beautiful to ignore. That shaft cutting through the ri

Port Antonio keeps her fishing fleet tucked safely away among the trees on the edge of west harbor
From up on Bonnie View you can’t hear a thing — no engines, no voices — just red hulls sitting still on green water, names painted o

This church outlived its own parish.
St George’s in Buff Bay went up in 1814, built from cut stone that arrived in Jamaica as ballast in the holds of English ships — stone that crossed an ocean as dead weight and ended up as walls. It wa

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Beaches

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Hidden Waterfalls

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Coastal Drama

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Majestic Mountains

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Old Towns

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Beaches ✳︎ Hidden Waterfalls ✳︎ Coastal Drama ✳︎ Majestic Mountains ✳︎ Old Towns ✳︎