Jamaika Simon Chaput Don Kirby literally grew up

Don Kirby literally grew up turning the surface of the earth upside down—on his parent’s sharecropper farms in Northwestern Missouri

Yet however powerless or worn down the people and places shown

This book is the first installation of a three part series by the artist

In this series of images and in the film of the same title

Jamaika Simon Chaput Don Kirby literally grew upFirst edition of Jamaika by Jos Sarmento Matos (2024) First impression Medium format hardback in new condition Signed and dated by Jos Sarmento Matos to title pages In a limited edition of 500 copies Self published About JAMAIKA aims to act as an intimate visual memory of Bairro da Jamaica, also representing many other racialized communities and others living in similar housing conditions in the metropolitan area of Lisbon and Porto. Many of these