Patrick Cariou Biography
Patrick Cariou's soulful black and white photographs exhibit his rare propensity to capture the individuality of his subjects. Cariou's collection of surfers the world over, from the North Shore to Peru, from Tahiti to Brittany, from Long Island to Easter Island has become a classic representation of the sport. Cariou captures the worlds most famous surfing spots and masters like no other photographer has done before or since. With bold black-and-white portraits and landscapes, Cariou illustrates the strict, separatist, jungle-dwelling, fruit-of-the-land lifestylepopularized by reggae legends Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Burning Spear.
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.
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