SOFT REVOLUTION
Documenting the end of the Castro Era
Various locations
Cuba
I was in
Cuba during the weeks prior to, and following Raul Castro’s resignation
as Cuba’s leader. I had just bought my first camera - these are my first pictures.
I became interested in the extraordinary paradox between the attention the political shift was given in the international press, “The end of an era”. “A historic transition”, and what I actually witnessed - nothing. Life went on, undisturbed. The 19th of April 2018 was a day like any other in Havana.
So I started to ask questions, questions from a tourist, an outsider. Behind closed doors, Cubans didn’t avoid the subject of politics.
I started to get very interested in the subject, to write and to interview people, but after a few weeks of traveling, I had to go back, and look for a job. This is a project I still find very interesting and think of developing further. The difference of point of view, the disinformation between what we read and what actually happens. The relationiship between Cubans and their leaders is extremely ambiguous, just as much as the limited point of view of a misinformed tourist.
I became interested in the extraordinary paradox between the attention the political shift was given in the international press, “The end of an era”. “A historic transition”, and what I actually witnessed - nothing. Life went on, undisturbed. The 19th of April 2018 was a day like any other in Havana.
So I started to ask questions, questions from a tourist, an outsider. Behind closed doors, Cubans didn’t avoid the subject of politics.
I started to get very interested in the subject, to write and to interview people, but after a few weeks of traveling, I had to go back, and look for a job. This is a project I still find very interesting and think of developing further. The difference of point of view, the disinformation between what we read and what actually happens. The relationiship between Cubans and their leaders is extremely ambiguous, just as much as the limited point of view of a misinformed tourist.