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Alfredo’s Day-to-Day

Alfredo is 80 years old and lives alone, on the top floor of a three-bedroom house in Havana’s Cayo Hueso neighborhood.

Taken at different points of the Havana landscape, these images try to expose a distinct vision of the skyline of the Cuban capital.

The puddles left after the rain are mirrors where, at times, striking elements of the landscape are reflected. (35 pictures)

It is a wooded area mainly of lianas, extending over some 700 hectares around the Almendares River. (28 pictures)

Enma, 77, goes out early in the morning and heads to the countryside in search of medicinal plants to help alleviate her neighbor’s ailments.

We know that beauty is the beginning of the terrible. This is the trance that some of Aldaya’s 29 photos put us in.

Before the rain you can see a deep grey sky, with a cloudiness offering a drama and diversity of tones between black and white (38 pictures).

I want to show you some of the traces that these rains leave, drops of water on vegetation, on a cable, a fence, an air conditioning grill.

The quiet residential neighborhood made up mainly of houses built in the 1950s is relatively well preserved. See the 30 photos…

Cubans living across the USA gathered together outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, on the morning of June 23rd. See why…