Color images of Cuban life from personal project 2002-2007.
Cuba during the 1st decade of the 21st Century witnessed the tired years of a revolution started in the 1950’s by Fidel Castro and a band of idealists. I explored the external propaganda culture of Cuba alongside the actual man-on-the street culture of Cuba between 2002 and 2007. I’m presenting a small subset of 5 color images here that I feel display a deeper perspective into the two co-existent cultures I found during this time.
Through an introduction by a Canadian friend to the Cuban Minister of Music I was able to secure credentials to photograph Fidel Castro in one of his last famous Uno de Mayo speeches in Plaza de la Revolution with one million Cubans standing in the scorching heat and humidity waving tiny hand held Cuban flags.
These images represent not only Havana, where most Cuban visitors never seem to be able to extract themselves from; but also Baracoa on the Eastern most tip of Cuba, Santiago, the culture center of Cuba and Cuba’s second largest city and Trinidad, a Spanish Colonial town of historic value.