I have a good friend, with whom I have been collaborating a lot for years due to work and study issues. She is in her last year of Visual Arts at the Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA).
This time, one of the places we visited for her thesis was a neighborhood in Guanabacoa.
Guanabacoa is that place where Cubans, especially the people from Havana, usually send you to go if things in life are not going too well, haha. The reason behind this is the Yoruba practice, which is said to be always in demand in this part of the capital.
But we didn't go for that, for the record! 😂
So, already being there, I decided to take some pictures of the barrio we visited.
As you will see in the pictures, the tendency is to be a place with pronounced degrees of deterioration. And yes, that's the way Havana is, it's true.
The children, when they saw me with a camera, asked me if I was "Yuma", that is, if I was a foreigner. That always causes me a little embarrassment, because it is very sad to think that we are very few who can have this type of equipment, for economic reasons, so most people will associate you with someone with high income or from another country. (In my case, neither of the two things).
Anyway, here I leave you this little piece of Havana, not as visited as others of our spaces.😉
How sad the deterioration of that area of the city is, but the photographer's work is very good 😍😍😍
Lately, I've had several episodes of being ask if I'm a Yuma like, and it's something that saddens me because it wasn't as pronounced before and I now the reasons behind those questions 😪
PS: I love your photos ❤️
Apart from the deterioration of the buildings and houses what strikes me most are its empty streets, that happens all over the country, there is a tremendous veil of sadness. By the way, the streets are good in that area ☺️ Excellent photos friend 🤗
That's right, the streets are quite empty, even though it's a weekend. There were little houses in better condition, but there most of them were like that 🥲. Thank you very much for leaving me your comment.
It is impressive this work that you share with us, I really liked the way you capture in images the wonder of what at first sight could be deteriorated but still has beauty.
Oh @janetedita friend, what a lovely place to take street photos... And it looks like some of my streets here geez!.... I send a big hug and a big round of applause to you for these excellent photos.... And -as we say here in my land- "¡Ajá, andaban pa'que los brujos un rato!"... Because here too we have those kinds of ‘alternative services’ caray!!! ;)
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I have never been to Cuba, but I've heard that it's a country that keeps tourists from locals separate. Tourists get to see the 'rich' side while the locals can't make the ends meet. It's sad to see how the regime treats their own people. Your photos capture sadness and pain. There are so many emotions in them. Great job!
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