Rose Murray-Portrait of a Photographer (T. & T. International Film Festival)

Rose Murray -Portrait of a Photographer was a half hour film on exhibition at the Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival 2010 at Movietown, Invaders Bay Port of Spain. This documentary interviewed a caucasian woman who was a retired photographer in Jamaica.the documentary was shot at her rustic home filled with pictures in the Peranese Mountains where she now lives. Rose Murray was the wife of the British High Commissioner to Jamaica and Ambassador to Haiti when she began her hobby that turned into a career.

Rose Murray became a volunteer at a children's home and started taking pictures of them. When she took the picture Rose would develop the film and give the children a copy for them to keep. In time the children and even adults invited her to take pictures of them and their most memorable occasions (going to the beach, pregnancies, even dressing up); knowing that when that picture is taken they would have a picture to remember the moments with.

Ms. Murray commented that the reflection of light on black people was beautiful she prefered to take pictures of them rather than white people as she said they didn't have the same character. She made sure to take the pictures of the Jamaicans as humans and not MONSTERS as some persons thought they were.
This movie was produced by Alexander Bendahan and won the First place-Best Short Documentary-Rhode Island Film International Film Festival, Official Selection at the St. Barth's Film Festival and Official Selection at the T. & T. International Film Festival .

I found that this documetary showed a 'foreigner' per say finding her place in a country that didn't give birth to her yet being accepted by all who knew her for what she stood for and appreciating her talent.