DEAR FRIENDS

Dear friends.
Over a five year period I created a small publishing company named POALAOF.
In August 2013, and in the presence of the Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Her Excellency Mrs Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, POALAOF published its first book, Portrait of a Legend and other Folks. This is a 300 page, gold embossed, hard cover book containing my original work over thirty-five years and with words by Jamaican legend Bob Marley. It is a reasonably priced book to both individuals and corporations and the self-published author is a trend that will become a mandatory element in the publishing business in the future. At this time POALAOF has succeeded in start-up but is still short of an important goal of obtaining adequate working capital.
I would now like to extend to my friends a golden opportunity to become a part of this potentially incredibly profitable business. To ease any concerns you might express about the risk involved, keep in mind that I am not asking for any large investment as I plan to offer a percentage of the profit after expenses. As a sole-trader, I can explain in more detail what that means, but rest assured that it will serve to allay any concerns you have about your own economic risk.
POALAOF has already separated itself from the competition because Portrait of a Legend and other Folks contains probably some of the last unpublished photographs of Bob Marley. POALAOF will also utilize the many social media outlets available on the Internet and will shortly have a dramatic web presence that is currently being created by a reputable web-site designer. Therefore, POALAOF will not be limited and will potentially have a global customer base. Market research has indicated that because there is a high Bob Marley fan base worldwide, Portrait of a Legend and other Folks will become affordable because with adequate investment, the printing of a larger stock of books will dramatically lower the cover price. POALAOF intention is also to fill the gap between the high-end, prohibitively expensive customized books, and the lack-lustre paper back lower end market. POALAOF will therefore offer an exciting alternative in the form of a memorable book that will also be affordable.
The global book market dwarfs those of films and music combined and the American market alone generate sales in excess of US $27 billion each year. Companies and multi-national corporations are experiencing more and more needs for gifts: congratulatory gifts, sympathy gifts, gifts to welcome a new high-level employee or simply to give thanks to a long-standing employee. In addition, the clientèle for corporate gifts is constantly expanding. Practically any kind of business represents an opportunity to provide steady revenue from an adequately priced book.
POALAOF cash flow is admittedly constricted and currently non-existent during this initial phase. Once adequate investment is secured for the production of a larger stock of books, revenues will begin to flow and POALAOF can then move toward publishing more affordable books and ebooks. Cash flow difficulties are faced by all new businesses and POALAOF is therefore not exempt. POALAOF also applied for a Small Business loan but currently there is an enormous amount of competition for these loans and with no adequate collateral POALAOF application was refused. Despite that however, I have pursued all possible avenues for investment capital and after three months, I believe it is now time to take a chance to ask those friends with long term visions to think positively about this opportunity.
Over a period of five years I conducted a great deal of research and am well aware of the risks involved in any new venture, but I firmly believe that this is a business opportunity that is bound to grow. Currently, there is very little competition and none of them have the unpublished images that adorn Portrait of a Legend and other Folks.
Please consider helping with much needed working capital because Portrait of a Legend and other Folks will become an important piece of documentary work in the future.
Thanking you.
Lindsay Oliver Donald. November, 2013.
Photograph: Mr Ron Vester.


http://www.poalaofthebook.com/

INVEST IN FINE ART

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Invest in Fine Art.
Pre-order Portrait of a Legend and other Folks.
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Passez votre pré-commande de "Portrait d'une légende et autres personnes." Faites un investissement dans le domaine des beaux-arts.

"Invierte en Arte. Pre-ordena "Portrait Of A Legend and Other Fine Folks". Envío gratuito".

Investi in arte raffinata. Pre-ordina RITRATTO di una LEGGENDA e altre PERSONE SPEDIZIONE GRATUITA

Investeren in Kunst bestel Portret van een legende en andere mensen.
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美術品に投資しましょう。

伝説の人達の写真集の先行予約ができます。

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Επενδύστε στις καλές τέχνες Προ-παραγγείλετε το "Πορτρέτο ενός θρύλου και άλλων φίλων" Δωρεάν αποστολή.

Za sve ljubitelje Boba Marleyja i ljubitelja likovne umjetnosti!
Lindsay Oliver Donald remek Portrait of a Legend And other Folks !
Knjiga se može unaprijed naručiti! Nema dodatnih troškova za poštarinu!

A LEAGUE OF OUR OWN

 

 

Robert Nesta Marley once said that over 2 MILLION PHOTOGRAPHS were taken of him. I was blessed to be one of those Photographers.

Some of the other photographers are Adrian Boot, Dennis Morris, Neville Garrick, Esther Anderson, Lynn Goldsmith, Michael Putland, Kate Simon.

 

 

LINDSAY DONALD

 

 

ADRIAN BOOT

 

 

DENNIS MORRIS 

 

 

NEVILLE GARRICK

 

 

KATE SIMON

 

 

ESTHER ANDERSON

 

 

LYNN GOLDSMITH

 

MICHAEL PUTLAND

 

http://www.poalaofthebook.com/

THIS IS THE MAN THAT PHOTOGRAPHED 'THE GOLDEN AGE OF REGGAE'

THIS IS LINDSAY DONALD. THIS IS THE MAN THAT PHOTOGRAPHED
'THE GOLDEN AGE OF REGGAE'.
A FACT.

LINDSAY DONALD ON NEWSHOUND

In 1994, Mr Ross King, the Scottish television presenter, actor and writer and the current automated telephone voice of American Express, invited I to appear on his BBC quiz show, Newshound. Mr Ross King can be seen daily on ITV morning shows Daybreak and is currently their Los Angeles Correspondent. Thanks for that break Ross. Bless.

OPEN LONDON

Open London is a small project which began in early 2012 documentating probably one of the greatest city in the world, London.

THE PURPOSE OF BOB MARLEY

 

So that was the purpose of having Bob Marley in Trenchtown, that we use Bob Marley as our Messenjah who carry the message around the whole world... Planno

 

Many are CALLED but few are CHOSEN.

I was CHOSEN to photograph the GOLDEN AGE OF REGGAE.

PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS.

 

 

A PARTNERSHIP TO BENEFIT THE PARTNERS!

http://poalaof.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/a-partnership-to-benefit-the-partners/

HAVE A PEACEFUL SUNDAY YOU LOT

I never had the blessing of  taking the portrait of the LEGEND LUCKY DUBE..peace and love you lot.

Well, Peter Tosh was basically the reason really behind my getting into reggae, because when I first heard Peter Tosh, I really liked his music and I really liked his message. Basically, everything about Peter Tosh really was great. He is still even today the foundation of what I’m doing. ~ Lucky Dube

Photo courtesy of Patrice Arias https://www.facebook.com/messages/100000601955685#!/pages/Publicist-for-Lindsay-Donald/306555176069205

SPEAKING WITH LINDSAY DONALD

http://itsbraap.blogspot.com/2012/02/speaking-with-lindsay-donald-his-life.html

LINDSAY DONALD THE PHOTOGRAPHER

For twenty years I had been photographing contentedly. The world was a calendar: Sunset after sunset. But slowly and subtly ‘the calendar view’ of the reality, was being cut and I began to experience a quality of struggle between my clarified sense of perception and my old learned photographic responses to the outside world.

I somehow slowed down and began to sit quietly on my own and saw that I had to join the practice of meditating with the technical knowledge of photography and not to keep them as separate compartments in my life! I also had to understand that I should trust that first thought, and to go along with it and not to conceptualize too much in my work.

I figured that I did not have to impress an imaginary audience as I was shooting, that way I was able to approach the whole thing simply. In a nutshell, I had to learn to appreciate the ordinariness of the world around me. Someone said to me, that I should learn to sit down and meditate, because meditation slows down the basic speed and aggressive qualities of the mind and it also allows the senses to operate in a more natural and uncluttered field, which is unbiased by considerations of what I would like or not like to see!

While shooting the bulk of this work, I was noticing that I was being caught in a mind trap. I was not shooting what I saw. In the first instant, a fresh perception would occupy my thoughts and immediately, I would get another flash of inspiration of how I would have like to shoot the same subject. I would inevitably lose the first fresh idea, and photograph along a predictable conditioned response. This split between my first and second thought became extremely frustrating. I had no way of relating with that frustration.

As my work developed, I began to appreciate that the images I was producing were coming closer to recording things as I was actually seeing them; somehow, the basic qualities of people. From that point of view, I feel that one major obstacle has been removed from my journey as a photographer. I am now able to share my experience of the world with this increasing simplicity.

For any photographer who wishes to express his or her vision of the world as they see it, what they say can be enormously helpful and inspiring for future generations.

35 YEARS OF WORK..PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS

As we slowly trod the road, I am thrilled with the quality of the the images that will adorn the book. The sheer quality of each image and the use of black and white will make this book a feast for any lover of roots/portraiture photography. The layout will be simple, but exceedingly stylish and the presentation of the book will be superb. The master American photographer Mr Ansel Adams is reported to have once said that if he took one exceptional photograph a month he considered himself fortunate. Mr Adams was a prolific photographer who took tens of thousands of frames during his lifetime. From my small collection of 10,000 negatives, I have found 288 photographs from the past 35 years which I considered exceptional, and these will be published in August, 2012, in a monograph of original black and white prints titled, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS.

PHOTOGRAPHER LINDSAY DONALD (PART 3)

Photographer Lindsay Donald (Part 3) from karmazoomedia on Vimeo.