Category Archives: Cuba

A Glimpse of Cuba: Home Depot in La Habana

Most Habaneros live with the reality that when a pipe is beyond repair…that the electric wires short out…a glass breaks…that it won’t be easily replaced. Stores just don’t carry the items necessary for home maintenance…

But when a building collapses…and after every major tropical rainstorm and hurricane there are quite a few that go down…there’s a...

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A Glimpse of Cuba: La Maravilla

Eleven years ago I stood in front of this building in La Habana Vieja… first the sign caught my eye and then observing the balcony, I noticed the old lady swaying in the window back and forth with the baby in her arms. She was aware that I was shooting and started to fix her...

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A Glimpse of Cuba: Imaginate

At first I was attracted to the gesturing…slapping down of “las fichas”…the commentary…”me pegue”(the joyful, cocky voice of the player who puts his final domino piece on the table at the end of the game) but as I observed the “theater” that I love in life. I noticed this “actress” playing her role…I love the...

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A Glimpse of Cuba: Imaginate

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Glimpse of Cuba: Photography of the Cuban Spirit

For the past 13 years I have had a love affair photographing the Cuban people. Their lives, their reality, those that still have a dream and those that have lost the dreams they once had.
 
Soon I’ll be creating a new website that will feature images and the stories that go with those images. In the...

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