Haitian friends of The Last Pogo
Haitian Voodoo Priest “Nestly”; photograph by Frank Polyak
We’ve made a lot of friends in the four years since we started shooting The Last Pogo Jumps Again: A Biased & Incomplete History Of Toronto Punk Rock Circa September 24 1976 To December 1 1978, not the least being the Haitian Voodoo Priest pictured above. Donations to help out the thousands in trouble in Haiti can be made at www.redcross.ca/donatenow.
BREAKING: Pogo H.Q. just got a call from photographer Frank Polyak, who was supposed to be in Haiti today but decided he’d best stick around the house and be domestic for January and delay the trip ’til February. Frank told us that our Voodoo Priest — Nestly — in the photo above survived, being in the town of Jacmel. The town was hit hard too, but as of at least the first few days of the tragedy, Nestly was still alive. http://www.facebook.com/l/b702e;www.helptammyhelphaiti.com is another site you can check out if you care to help. If your curious about what it all looks like, photographer Daniel Morell is posting pics via Twitter http://twitpic.com/photos/photomorel.
UPDATE: JANUARY 19. In an odd coincidence, our L.A. shooter Amy Belling was supposed to be interviewing photographer/graphic artist Rodney Bowes this weekend, but Rodney will be flying down to Haiti for the weekend on a plane full of people including Bill Clinton.
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