Yes Rasta

About this book

With bold black-and-white portraits and landscapes Cariou indelibly captured the strict separatist jungle-dwelling fruit-of-the-land lifestylepopularized by reggae legends Bob Marley Peter Tosh and Burning Spearin images never before seen until now. In Yes Rastathe phrase spoken by true Rastafari when greeting each otherCarious direct classical photographs reveal men whose style and attitude are as distinctive as their dreadlocks. Men who have left the modern world of Babylon in pursuit of their own independence. Men whose lives are intertwined with the tropical landscape and whose rituals symbols philosophies religion medicine agriculture family structure and remarkable strength make the definitive statement of self-reliance.