Eyes and Ears Of The Caribbean Canadian Community
Eddie Grant, Prime Minister Manley shaking hands with Al Hamilton Contrast publisher with Anthony Hill 1980 Five Veteran Shooters Were the Eyes Of The Caribbean Canadian Community Back In The Day Back in the 70s, 80s and 90s a very small group of Caribbean Canadian photojournalists were literarily the Ears, Eyes and Voice of many Toronto community newspapers! Press Photographs taken by Jules Elder, Eddie Grant, Diane Liverpool, Al Peabody and Jim Russell are on display at the Art Gallery of Burlington as part of that gallery’s Black History Month celebration. Ears, Eyes, Voice: Black Canadian Photojournalists 1970s - 1990s is an exhibition that brings together important visual works by the five “shooters”. Their combined collection of photographs is a comprehensive and rare record that have documented over three decades of stories about the history of Toronto’s Caribbean Canadian community. Organized and circulated by Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND), ...