Love Stories, Cuba


  • Photographer
    Kobi Israel
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2005-2010
  • Technical Info
    Medium Format negatives

“Love Stories, Cuba” is an autobiographical journey which ignites personal memories and reflections from my own adolescence growing up in a young Israel, macho and militarist society. It explores and documents homo-erotic experiences which reflects on personal homo-social memories. What started as a little adventure in 1993, flying from Montego Bay into the neighboring island, than isolated and deeply in crisis, turned into a passionate love affair and a personal quest spreading over 15 years )1995-2010), investigating notions of homoerotic experiences in a traditional macho society. The approach was of a “participant observer” (using a term associated with anthropological research) – I am both an “insider” and an “outsider” at the same time, experiencing, and documenting simultaneously.

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“Love Stories, Cuba” is an autobiographical journey which ignites personal memories and reflections from my own adolescence growing up in a young Israel, macho and militarist society.

It explores and documents homo-erotic experiences which reflects on personal homo-social memories.

What started as a little adventure in 1993, flying from Montego Bay into the neighboring island, than isolated and deeply in crisis, turned into a passionate love affair and a personal quest spreading over 15 years )1995-2010), investigating notions of homoerotic experiences in a traditional macho society.

The approach was of a “participant observer” (using a term associated with anthropological research) – I am both an “insider” and an “outsider” at the same time, experiencing, and documenting simultaneously.

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