Part 2 of the interview with photographer Leslie Robertson-Toney of Studio Lafoncette Photography on Mas Women
Do you ever get from behind the camera? (during Carnival that is).
I occasionally party, however I find it hard to justify the expense of most of the new “all inclusive fetes” that are en vogue in Trinidad, so I’m not likely to be at most of those. I really like playing mas, but again, the price and quality of adult mas has been disappointing in recent years. I hope to be able to do that again soon. Playing mas is a big part of the carnival experience that feeds my soul - there is something spiritual about mas for me that I can't fully articulate, so it's difficult for me to miss that. The catch 22 is, if there’s good mas, I want to be behind the camera as much as I want to be in costume.
