Jerry Garns

Jan 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Ashley Gordon |Brigham Young |Jerry Garns

Keywordsphotographs, Bajan, religious toleranceCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractDuring the summer of 2017, I traveled to the island of Barbados to better understand and accurately document two of the island’s diminishing religions: The Apostolic Spiritual Baptists and the Rastafari. I wanted to photograph the Bajan people in such a way as to display and emphasize the light and hope that their faith creates on both individual and communal levels.