HABANA SONG - Jean Christophe Béchet ( with print )
Photographer Jean-Christophe Béchet went to Cuba in 1990, just as the "Balseros" were trying to reach the American coast, Florida, on their makeshift rafts. He returned to Havana twenty years later, after the death of Fidel Castro, to discover a city in the throes of change. The American cars are still there, but they've become cabs for tourists; along the Malecon, buildings are being renovated and luxury bars are flourishing...
He has decided to steer clear of this tourist theater, preferring to lose himself in the dark streets, in search of those Cuban sensations: between poverty and class, order and anarchy. Habana Song is a visual poetry performed in black and white, far from the clichés and colors that usually identify Cuba. The music accompanies us on this photographic journey.
Published by Éditions Loco,
28 cm x 21.50 cm, 152 pages, new
ISBN: 978-2-84314-018-1
Photographer Jean-Christophe Béchet went to Cuba in 1990, just as the "Balseros" were trying to reach the American coast, Florida, on their makeshift rafts. He returned to Havana twenty years later, after the death of Fidel Castro, to discover a city in the throes of change. The American cars are still there, but they've become cabs for tourists; along the Malecon, buildings are being renovated and luxury bars are flourishing...
He has decided to steer clear of this tourist theater, preferring to lose himself in the dark streets, in search of those Cuban sensations: between poverty and class, order and anarchy. Habana Song is a visual poetry performed in black and white, far from the clichés and colors that usually identify Cuba. The music accompanies us on this photographic journey.
Published by Éditions Loco,
28 cm x 21.50 cm, 152 pages, new
ISBN: 978-2-84314-018-1
Photographer Jean-Christophe Béchet went to Cuba in 1990, just as the "Balseros" were trying to reach the American coast, Florida, on their makeshift rafts. He returned to Havana twenty years later, after the death of Fidel Castro, to discover a city in the throes of change. The American cars are still there, but they've become cabs for tourists; along the Malecon, buildings are being renovated and luxury bars are flourishing...
He has decided to steer clear of this tourist theater, preferring to lose himself in the dark streets, in search of those Cuban sensations: between poverty and class, order and anarchy. Habana Song is a visual poetry performed in black and white, far from the clichés and colors that usually identify Cuba. The music accompanies us on this photographic journey.
Published by Éditions Loco,
28 cm x 21.50 cm, 152 pages, new
ISBN: 978-2-84314-018-1
