Photo Feature

The town of Las Tunas is another one of Cuba’s “burnt” cities (set on fire to deprive it from the colonial invaders), though not as famous in this regard as the city of Bayamo.(27 photos)

Summer activities especially for children are taking place around the Cuban capital. The Sports Institute, Cuban TV and the University Students Association put on open-air events such as the one captured here. (25 photos)

Carlo Sanchez is from Manzanillo and has devoted himself to restoration for more than 10 years. He’s worked in places under worse conditions, with much higher roofs than this one and with much shakier scaffolds. “If someone is afraid they cannot work in this trade,” he assured me. (15 photos)

The training ship that recently visited Havana’s port was part of the 2010 Libertadoras Bicentennial Sailing Regatta, a group of frigates from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile that were launched to celebrate the bicentennial of the 19th century liberation wars in Latin America. Their mission was to also deliver a message of friendship to the different ports in which they stopped over.(23 photos)

“Book Night” was held recently on 23rd Avenue in the capital city’s Vedado district. This was the fourth annual edition of an event that officially inaugurates the summer season in Cuba and is organized simultaneously in all the provincial capitals.(23 photos)

Perhaps it’s my personal taste, but I believe that one of the provinces where you’ll find more beautiful people is the most eastern of our provinces: Guantanamo. Undoubtedly, the issue of beauty, like everything else, is quite relative, and each person has their own preferences. It’s likely that Joseito Fernandez shared my same opinion when he created that famous song Guantanamera. (40 photos)

A photographer will never run out of subjects for showing Havana from any number of different angles. In this photo feature Elio Delgado takes us to the area surrounding the Capitolio building, to Old Havana, near the Malecon seawall and to parts of the Vedado district. (27 photos)

Virtually everyone agrees that building maintenance has been lacking during the first 50 years of the Cuban revolution. (12 photos)

Gradually —seated in a corner, so as not to interrupt— we got used to the dimness. We could perceive the fatigue of the dancers, the creativeness of the teachers and artistic directors, the hopes of success by many, as well as the regretted missteps and twisted ankles. (27 photos)