For Immediate Release: July 27, 2012 After 3:00pm

Dancehall: The Good, the Bad, and Ugly
A Photoexposure of the gritty, often times raw world of Dancehall Reggae by Award winning Photojournalist Ms. Lesia Bailey
 
Where: Accents Bookstore. 1790 Eglinton Ave. W. (at Dufferin)
When: June 17 to July 17, 2012
Opening Reception on June 24, 2012 6:30pm.
Cost: $5.00 per person or a donation - Opening Night

The Beginning:
Lesia Bailey or "Pictalady Lesia” as she is affectionately known in and around the dancehall fraternity in Canada and the Caribbean , has had a passion for images and colour since her early childhood days designing doll clothes for her friends in the tough Toronto neighborhood of Rexdale.  Fast forward to the present where Lesia has used her camera to vividly portray and chronicle a complex culture that is Dancehall. "Reggae music has spurned a child "it was once said, and that is "dancehall'. With its people, music, clothing and nuisances it has developed a unique and often contentious "culture". And Lesia has been there since 1990 in Toronto.
 
During high school she was one on 250 students that got selected to attend the newly formed Etobicoke School of the Arts, majoring in Visual Arts, with a minor of Dance. During her senior year she applied and gets accepted into the Fashion Design program at Central Technical School downtown Toronto. Lesia was on her way and applied then graduated from Humber College with a Business Management and Marketing Diploma's. In 1991, Lesia had to use her talents for colour , imagery and business accum and started her own photographic business called LBT Commotions. This was the beginning of her being able to put her love of film and art together and work for many local and international media houses/publications very successfully. Often she was the only woman on the dancehall scene working for publications like Mic Check, It's Your Time Magazine, Reggaemania, Uprising International, SPLASH, Caribbean Camera magazines. She then graduated to the majors and was published in The Toronto Sun, The Jamaica Gleaner, Star, Canada Extra, Hardcore Newspaper and many others.
 
Since December 1990, Dancehall Lesia has been photographing the Toronto and international dancehall scene with all it's "drama ". She has finally conceptualized all that is 22 years of sweat, tears and euphoria and love for the genre in Dancehall: The Good, the Bad, and Ugly
A Photoexposure of the gritty, often times raw world of Dancehall Reggae by Award winning Photojournalist
 
For more information please contact: lesia.bailey@gmail.com.​