The Revolution's Night


  • Photographer
    Dario De Dominicis
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2006/2011
Story

This project started in August 2006, when Fidel Castro, due to health problems, gives up power in favour of his brother Raul. For the first time after 48 straight years as leader of the country, he is forced to stand down and in February 2008 will be completely out of the scene. After the announcements made during the first 6 months and the expectations created, Raul’s government vanishes the possibilities for a renovation with a series of law measures that are intended to slow down the coming of a new future that everyone now demands. Cuba and its Revolution are living a very critical moment. Many years have past since the fall of the eastern European socialist block and even the historical Pope visit seems too remote already. The management has wrapped oneself up and only worried about keeping the power, disclosing its incapacity to restore it. Not even the “lider maximo” Fidel’s renunciation to power, has been enough to shake the country, to restart the natural course of History. The Cuban people appear as if immersed in a long and endless night, not knowing when they will be able to emerge. The night is waiting, hanging, still. The night is the moment of dreaming, of intimacy, of confessions, when reality enters a more dreamlike vision, retrieving perhaps a deeper sense of things. Only those hours between nightfall and dawn can catch the surreal state that embraces the whole island’s life. A universe to all appearances blurred but in which the consciences show themselves, their aspirations and their delusion. Living the night, taking photographs of its own atmospheres and wandering in its own lights, in its own states of mind, only so it’s possible to understand the human condition of the Cuban daily life. The scope of this photographic study is to accompany the Cuban trough this long political transition to reach a possible social and economical stability.

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