Most everything you’ve heard about Trinidad Carnival is true. People party in the streets for two days straight. People let loose for weeks before. It's an explosion of cultural creativity. It’s the mother of West Indian-style carnivals. And it is a uniquely Trinidadian experience you are unlikely to forget
‘In Yoruba culture, these giant otherwordly figures represent the return of deceased ancestors. Photographing them in port towns north of Newcastle was quite surreal’
Carnival queen Shynel Brizan shares the triumphs and challenges of her 14-year journey in the art form of one of Trinidad and Tobago's oldest masquerades the moko jumbie.