Peter Dean Rickards

Peter Dean Rickards is a founder and Editor of First Magazine and creator of The Afflicted Yard. He's also a photographer and occasionally has been known to write. He's based in Kingston, Jamaica and is likely to stay there until he is surprised at his gate by gunmen who shoot him and steal his cellphone

Website — http://www.first-magazine.net

Latest Posts

Kanopi

February 28th 09, 10:31

A journey through Jamaica’s idyllic east side. Portland, Long Bay and finally Kanopi house. (

Watch the HD version (click the HD button and watch it on the Vimeo page) and then check them on the web : http://www.kanopihouse.com
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Esther and the old hotel

February 22nd 09, 10:38

I grew up close to the Stony Hill hotel. It was right around the corner from where I lived on Willow Run near the Hermitage Dam in Kingston. Even in those days (when it actually had guests visiting), it always seemed to me like a place one goes to get murdered.

Its decor is frozen firmly in the 1970s, complete with yellow and green shag carpeting and furniture that seems like it was made in 2009 to LOOK as if it was made in the 70s (but clearly wasn’t), if you know what I mean.

Years later, a visit to the hotel confirms that absolutely nothing has changed, except for the fact that the old lady who owned it has died and the place has now been sold (nobody knows to who).

It seemed like a perfect place to photograph Esther -Quiet. Weird. Pretty.

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Kingston Logic 2.0: 1st public screening in Waterhouse, Jamaica

January 28th 09, 5:52

Kingston Logic 2.0 is the second video release from the album of the same title by Waterhouse artist Terry Lynn, and the second video directed by the Rickards Bros. for the artist.

In creating the first experimental video for Kingston Logic 1.0, producer Russell ‘phred’ Hergert connected Lynn’s lyrics to a rapidly-changing series of Afflicted Yard photographs depicting various realities of life in modern Kingston. In version 2.0, the colourful frenzy of Kingston and the collaboration of Lynn, phred and The Rickards Bros. returns with a few added beats created by French producer Olivier Giacomotto.

The video is set for release on Phree Music and Last Gang Records in early February 2009, but we screened it for the first time last Saturday to an audience in Waterhouse, Kingston (where the entire video was shot). Here’s a look at how that went down (photos after the jump).
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Banksy Recession Sale!

January 20th 09, 16:21

Remember ‘THE ROCK’ ? That potentially priceless chunk of concrete with the scribble on it by that guy that we chopped down in Kingston a few months ago?

It wasn’t for sale….till NOW. Bidding starts at $1.00 (shipping not included).

Seriously!: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140296281035

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David Houncheringer & Marc Ferrario: Smells like Shit’mas trees

December 19th 08, 7:08

The last time I checked in with my friend, Swiss photographer/artist David Houncheringer he was killing models and complaining about the weather. Now he’s making Christmas trees, decorated with grenades, Xanax and a few other goodies that you probably won’t be seeing at your local midnight mass.

Weird, but really good.

Check the entire series HERE.

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Indigenous Weekly

December 5th 08, 14:22

Yes this is wrong on many, many levels, but somehow, I think it speaks for the silent majority.
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Dark day in Jamaica

December 1st 08, 19:31

Cotton trees….folklore says thats where ghosts live.

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Banksy’s ‘Balloon Girl’-FREE (conditions apply) :)

November 24th 08, 14:28

It was a non-eventful day when he actually drew them. He bought some construction paper from a local pharmacy and cut the stuff out. Then he drew this stencil of a girl on an exterior wall and some rabbits on the inside the pub itself. I kind of just stood there taking his picture because it was something to do. I had already captured his face back at Buju’s studio where he had done some other stuff so this was just extra. I didn’t really think much of it. I mean I live in a place where people get shot for marking up people’s walls (usually with a paintbrush), so a few sprayed stencils on the wall of a pub didn’t strike me as particularly interesting.

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Drunk in New York

November 17th 08, 9:08

Here’s one thing I like about New York; on any given day, things can take a sudden turn for the better.

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Lilac Wine by Kwesi-Abbensetts

November 14th 08, 9:38

A highly original series by a highly orginal photographer who I found while visiting New York. Check out the striking freckle-faced model Nikia Phoenix — wickedness.

***stylist – pamela shepard
hair- eve nareya
makeup – geeta khanna
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Harlem: The Day After

November 6th 08, 1:39

Undercurrents in the history. More after the jump (who came up with that term ‘more after the jump’ anyway?)

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Cindy – ‘Anything’ (barely safe for work)

October 27th 08, 20:38

Cindy Wright… Miss Jamaica 2006. More after the jump…

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No More Ice Cream!

October 16th 08, 23:48

Scarlett a di boss…
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