LINDSAY DONALD AND THE UPRISING TOUR

I was to accompany Bob Marley and The Wailers on the UPRISING tour in 1980. Photographs that I took on this tour are probably some of the last unpublished images taken of the Legend Bob Marley. They will be published in my book, Portrait of a Legend and Other Folks, due to be published in August, 2012.

LINDSAY DONALD AND THE BROADWATER FARM

I returned to England in 1985 and spent years as chief photo editor for The Caribbean Times newspaper, the oldest black owned newspaper in UK. I was also to teach photography on one of London's most infamous housing estates, The Broadwater Farm in Tottenham, scene of major riot in 1985.

LINDSAY DONALD AND THE MELODY MAKERS

In 1980, I was one of the first photographers to photograph The Melody Makers, when they released their first single 'Children Playing In The Streets'.

A LITTLE ABOUT LINDSAY DONALD

In 1974 I returned to Jamaica and got a job as a runner on the set of The Marijuana Affair, http://reggaefilms.blogspot.com/2008/10/marijuana-affair-1975-comming-soon.html which was being filmed in Kingston starring the late Calvin Lockhart. It was at this time that I met Bob Marley at 56 Hope Road, Marley's recording studio. After a year in Jamaica, I left to tour Africa and was to spend three years travelling across the Sahara Desert, teaching in Ghana, photographing the Nigerian FESTAC Festival and because of my friendship with the Nigerian musician Fela Ransome Kuti, I was incarcarated in a Lagos detention centre for five months in the same cell with Lieutenant Colonel Buka Suka Dimka, the man who led an abortive military coup against the Nigerian president, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed and who subsequently was later executed.

COMMITTED TO PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS

LINDSAY DONALD 'BRITISHER'

I was born in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1962 I emigrated to Harrow, England, to live with my mother. After leaving school in 1968, I got my first job working for Eastman Kodak where I developed a love for the art of photography.

LINDSAY DONALD PHOTOGRAPHER PART 2

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