In the middle of the fifth year of any major at the University of Havana, two issues greatly concern most students: their thesis (the culminating trial that validates them in the specialty they’re studying) and the job they’ll be placed in upon graduation.
A few days ago I witnessed one of the newest ways to woo a girl. I was on the beach when a young man approached us, a friend of mine and me.
On the floor where I live is a beautiful garden. For some time, many of the residents of this fourth level had proposed beautifying the common areas.
A non-practicing Catholic, rocker, photographer (non-artist), irreverent and somewhat pessimistic, are some of the definitions attributed to the personality of Gonzalo Gonzalez Borges (1959).
When the lights dim to begin the projection, something happens: he will quickly move over to a seat next to some woman sitting alone.
Through remarkable work that began in the 1980s, Abascal seeks to document moments of a society rich in customs, myths and traditions.
The area in Old Havana on and around Monte Street is where the resellers concentrate. Many of them come from the more economically depressed eastern Cuba and have settled in Havana in whatever way they could.
Shoe repair services are appreciated by many people I know. The lack of good quality shoes and the impossibility of an acceptable range require average Cubans to get their footwear mended time again and time again.
As part of the state exam I’m required to take to complete my degree in art history, I had to review the works of many Cuban documentary photographers who are professionally active in the contemporary world, though the beginnings of this date back to 1980s and ‘90s.
Reading the novel El Mendigo bajo el ciprés (The Beggar Under the Cypress) by Cuban writer Humberto Vidal, I was reminded of the bitter moments of my time in the rural school we were sent to.