Cuba is one of the most interesting places in the planet and I consider myself lucky enough to have visited it.
I didn't take much thought about photography at that time of my life and in Cuba it was one the first times I thought about it. This was mainly because of two reasons: for the first time I felt unsatisfied with the pictures I took with my point and shoot camera. It was such a wonderful place and I just couldn't capture it in all it's color and life, the second reason was that I stumbled, in a souvenir shop with this book, and bought it:
"The magic of Che passed through here!" - Jean Cornier
This book was inspiring indeed, it has wonderful pictures by many photographer:
René Burri (Magnum Photos),
Chinolope,
Alberto Figueroa,
Alberto Korda (who took the famous Guerrillero Heroico ),
Liborio Noval,
Roger Pic,
Perfecto Romero,
Osvaldo et Roberto Salas
I had read that Che was an enthusiast of photography but it was only when I opened the book that I realized that Che was really in to it, he appears in so many pictures holding several different cameras and lenses.
" 'I was a photographer before I was a Comandante,’ he once declared, and when asked the question after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, ‘Are you a revolutionary or a photographer?’ he answered, not surprisingly, ‘I am a revolutionary photographer’. "
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How I wish I could go back there again with a decent camera and take nice pictures this time!
Cuba is like a picture taken in the 50's
It's frozen in time...
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