{"id":42,"date":"2019-08-30T23:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T22:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dev.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/?p=42"},"modified":"2019-08-30T23:07:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T22:07:28","slug":"moving-jamaica-scottish-caribbean-connections-and-local-global-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/moving-jamaica-scottish-caribbean-connections-and-local-global-journeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Jamaica: Scottish-Caribbean Connections and Local-Global Journeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photography exhibition \u2013\u00a0<strong>\u2018Moving Jamaica: Scottish-Caribbean Connections and Local-Global Journeys\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 to be displayed at the Lamb Gallery in Dundee, from 19 October 2018 to mid-January 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Susan Mains<\/strong>\u00a0organised the exhibition featuring a range of unique historical and contemporary photographs that provide insights into the past, present and future cultural landscapes of Jamaica and their Scottish connections.<\/p>\n<p>Developed as a collaborative project between the University of Dundee and the University of St Andrews Library Special Collections the presentation includes 19th-century images by Dundee photographers Valentine &amp; Sons displayed alongside recent work by internationally acclaimed contemporary photographers\u00a0<strong>Varun Baker<\/strong>\u00a0(Jamaica) and\u00a0<strong>Stephen McLaren<\/strong>(Scotland).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8656\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8656\" src=\"https:\/\/cariscc.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/moving-jamaica-exhibition-october-2018.jpg?w=736\" alt=\"Moving-Jamaica-Exhibition-October-2018\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright: Varun Baker Photography (<a href=\"http:\/\/varunbaker.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/varunbaker.com\/<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While photographic images have historically played an important role in promoting tourist destinations, the exhibition highlights that they run in parallel to more complex, dynamic and revealing stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue address: Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photography exhibition \u2013\u00a0\u2018Moving Jamaica: Scottish-Caribbean Connections and Local-Global Journeys\u2019\u00a0\u2013 to be displayed at the Lamb Gallery in Dundee, from 19 October 2018 to mid-January 2019. Dr Susan Mains\u00a0organised the exhibition featuring a range of unique historical and contemporary photographs that provide insights into the past, present and future cultural landscapes of Jamaica and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/blackatlanticresearchdundee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}