GUAJIROS

Through a tight framing and photographing them in front of their house with walls often decrepit but colorful, I immortalized each of these faces in its natural setting, in the environment of its own in order to brins out more truth and to capture the uniqueness of each of them. By inserting a filigree text, I wanted to go beyond the simple portrait in the sense that something remains hidden there. The viewer will have to decipher the codes. These carefully chosen sentences come from Fidel’s propaganda discourses heavily rooted in Cuban identity.