Photo Feature Archives - Page 149 of 155

Catalan Caravan Supports the Cuban Five

Freedom for the Cuban Five was the motive behind a car caravan conducted this past Sunday by members and supporters of the Spanish organization “Defensem Cuba” (Let’s defend Cuba). (21 photos)

Cheketé: A Session with Obiní Batá

The group is characterized by its recognition of the feminine stamp in all its facets. One of the refrains they sing goes, “Women today are asserting themselves by challenging society.” (15 photos)

The Man Who Will Never Have a Dog

None of the dogs was a Dalmatian, or a German shepherd, or any of the types that people in this country will pay forty or fifty dollars for (sometimes more). What was sure, no one would have paid ten cents for these dirty, mangy street dogs that looked at us from the pictures with sadness. (15 photos)

Snake Rum, Arepas & Flowers

Cubans usually try it with reluctance, but with voraciousness I’m continuing to appreciate Venezuelan cuisine, from the city and the country. This is because after going up and down the hills there’s nothing like a plate of kinchoncho (lazy bone bean stew), accompanied by two or three arepas. (11 photos)

The Dead Child and the Rapping Grandma

It occurs in the metro or in minivans, the most widely used forms of public transportation in Caracas. Your standing up in the aisle or sitting and suddenly you hear a voice behind you saying, “Before anything else, good afternoon.” (12 photos)

Indian Musical Instruments in Cuba

Once inside and among the instruments, I could appreciate flutes of different sizes and styles; the Sitar, an instrument of traditional strings; and the harmonium, an instrument possessing a sound similar to that of the accordion and which was introduced by the British during the colonization of northern India.

Contemporary African Art in Havana

“The plurality of speech allows us to recognize diversified aesthetic experiences that nurture new re-conceptual readings of cultural legacy.” In this way we can enjoy everything from the most artisanal creations to technological advances traveling across dissimilar spaces of art in Africa, a pluri-cultural continent.”

Callejón de Hamel Open-Air Gallery

The creator of the Callejon de Hamel alleyway community art project, Salvador Gonzalez Escalona, is a painter, sculptor and muralist. His objective was to offer creative art to people while at the same time revitalizing an alleyway that had been forgotten by both time and the city. (23 photos)

A Day for Surrogate Mothers

I’ve often wondered why there isn’t a day for grandmothers. Why isn’t there the same saying for mothers that popularly exists about fathers: “a father is anyone, but there’s only one mother”? Couldn’t we turn the tables or at least dedicate a day to all women that have been mothers without being the person who gave birth to their “children”? (18 photos)

Bad Luck, a Cell Phone and Chicha

A Venezuelan friend, who unfortunately lives far from Caracas, sent me a cell phone that she didn’t use; she told me it was so I don’t keep walking around like a soldier without a rifle. (27 photos)