Category Archives: Cuba
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....
There is tranquility and peace in this image. An old man takes care of one of his only possessions. Sunday night the town was 35 miles south of Ike’s landfall in northeast Cuba. I know the old man lives up on a hill. My wife is from here. Most of her family still calls this place...
It is impossible to ignore the dangerously undermaintained shape of a serious number of La Habana’s buildings ― many of which collapse or become uninhabitable and unusable each year. Theodore Dalrymple’s essay Why Havana Had to Die addresses this more depressing view rather eloquently. Dalrymple writes of ‘the Ruins of Havana’ and bluntly reminds us...
