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Havana 1957
III Photography Grant Jacobo Tosio, award-wining granted by EFTI, International Center for Photography and Film & Jacobo Tosio Foundation.
— June 6, 2016. Madrid, Spain
While Cuban bars in Miami, shelter Cuban emigrants determined to remain united as a nation, Miami progresses and gradually leaves being Cuban to become an important American/Latin metropolis. Thus, the city that continues to grow is leaving behind Havana, its Cubans and its history.
Havana 1957, is a documentation study of the bar-restaurant located in Brickell, Miami. At my arrival to Miami, this bar was one of the main meeting places for Cuban immigrants. Decorated in the style of the Habana's 50s, it remains as an extension of the bars of ancient Havana; Of the bohemian sensuality that was suspended in the 60's. My photos reflect that mix of past-present and nostalgic.
I was inspired by the documentary photographs of the 50s and 60s of New York, when photography began its documentation of these metropolis. I find a poetic parallel, eventually the Cuban Miami will become just a neighborhood or a street swallowed by the big metropolis. Once again the nostalgic past for Cubans will come, and once again the loss of a city to call yours..
Eventually the Cuban Miami will become just a neighborhood or a street swallowed by the big metropolis.
ART PROJECTS
Emergency Exits
Award-winning project granted by the National Photographic Library of Cuba.
