After living and working for many years amidst the insane interpolitics of the downtown Manhattan scene of Fashionistas,Model Agencies, Advertising, Photographers Film Directors, Recording Artists, Music Producers, Television and Magazines. I came home to Jamaica and rediscovered the roots of reality, seeing my people and my homeland through the eyes and experiences of a more multidimensional mind for the first time. I was intrigued by the complexity and perceptions of a place so small, brimming with the most extreme forms of expression from violence to violets : everything was magnified many times over in its intensity and energy. I drank it all in for a while and after some time I started taking pictures and making videos with friends photographer and indie Film director of mine visiting from New York then eventually on my own. After shooting almost 500 models for the Model Search here in 2004 getting a baptism in lessons of the Jamaican kind, I thought it would be good to take a break and went to visit the country of my dreams: Brazil for the very first time.

The stark similar differences between Salvador, Brazil and Kingston,Jamaica also between Sao Paolo City
and New York City are enough to fill at least one book . My now almost constant travelling between Brazil, Jamaica and other parts of Latin America have not
only improved my Spanish and added Portuguese but has given me a wider perception and appreciation not only of the beauty and color but also of the realities
of these places.I have always looked at people and tried to find something beautiful about them, seeing the traces and faces of their ancestors: Coromantin, Ashanti, Bantu, Tupi-Gurani , Arawak, Carib, Chinese, East Indian,Italian, English, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Lebanese sharing the same DNA and sometimes the same gene pool.
These images are my expression, appreciation and celebration of beauty energy and color in the reality around me.

Enjoy:
Floyd L.Morris