It was as a tourist that I first visited Grenada in the West Indies. For the next fifteen years I made frequent trips to photograph an island yet fully to experience the impact of "First World" development. Throughout the Caribbean, tourism has meant drastic changes to every aspect of island life: economic, social and cultural.
My project
is a personal, impressionistic, visual account of a Caribbean that is
rapidly "disappearing". I have tried to capture the quotidian
life of Grenada, its work, its recreation, its rituals, both religious
and secular.
Short Biography
Gordon is
a freelance photographer and photo- illustrator based in Boston, USA.
She studied photography at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
The Art Institute of Boston, with graduate study at Rhode Island School
of Design
Frootko Gordon has won numerous awards for her Grenadian photographs.
She is currently working on a book about Grenada, which will include photographs,
illustrations and mixed media journals.
Days
of the Iguana
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