Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

Havana de Cuba

Marzena Pogorzaly made two trips to Havana. There, she walked the streets of Havana Vieja and El Centro, the old districts, trying to capture the melancholy beauty and decay of the city, and its inhabitants. Pogorzaly`s calmly gorgeous images are not directly concerned with politics, but as someone who grew up in pre-Solidarity Poland, she combines mature scepticism about communist regimes with due respect for some of its achievements. As she explains in her introduction: `Some of it was familiar. I was born, and grew up, behind the Iron Curtain. I immediately felt at home with the way The System worked, or rather the way it did not. But where the palette of my homeland was dull, drab and irredeemably monochrome, here I found a vivid treasure chest of visual epiphaniesโ€` Her chief care is for people, either viewed directly or by means of the traces they leave: posters of Che Guevara, neglected chairs, rickety old American cars. Her photographs are entirely without sentimentality but rich in that tradition of humanism which sees the deeper qualities that unite us with strangers, as well as the surface differences that divide us. Her Cubans are not pathetic victims of a dictatorship but a handsome, vital, proud and resourceful people.

Related Products:

Our Woman in Havana: Reporting Castro`s Cuba Havana & Cuba Central ITMB Best Eats Havana: 60+ Restaurants, Bars, and Cafes to Try in Cuba`s Capital Cuba Beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana Moon Havana Havana: Short Shadows Havana: A Subtropical Delirium Havana Year Zero Havana Gold Default ThumbnailHavana Footprint Handbook The 500 Hidden Secrets of Havana The Book of Havana: A City in Short Fiction Moon Cuba Havana Dice Default ThumbnailOur Man in Havana Havana Red Havana Black Havana Fever Havana Noir Default ThumbnailLonely Planet Pocket Havana Dirty Havana Trilogy Havana Blue Our Man Down in Havana – The Story Behind Graham Green`s Cold War Spy Novel Havana: Right Now Old Havana Havana Lonely Planet City Map NOAA Chart 11420 – Havana to Tampa Bay Insight Guides Explore Cuba Third Man in Havana Cuba East ITMB Cuba West ITMB Cuba Michelin DK Eyewitness Top 10 Cuba Cuba Gizi Map Cuba Wall Map Havana Michelin Green Guide Short Stays Old Cuba: Urban and Vernacular Architecture Cuba Borch Cuba – Culture Smart! Lonely Planet Cuba