Recently I was asked to take Esi Edugyan’s portrait for Canadian Business magazine. My friend and colleague Deddeda Stemler was unable to shoot that day and I was the fortunate photographer to help out. Why? Because Esi happens to be a very sweet sweet person and her family equally kind! Esi recently won the Giller Prize for her outstanding novel “Half Blood Blues”. It’s a book about Black jazz musicians trying to survive in France and in Germany during World War Two, and to hold their lives together in the aftermath of horror… (excerpt from Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes)