Returning to Cuba | One Week on Film

Traveling to Cuba is like holding a mirror up to ourselves.

This was second trip to Cuba with Women Photo Tours traveling under the visa Support for the Cuban People. I only photographed this trip on film, which was deeply fulfilling for me. Using film when I travel continues to give me the opportunity to use photograph as a tool to find presence, curiosity, observation, and collaboration. In reflection, I wonder if in some ways my photographs or perspective from this trip romanticize the resiliency of the Cuban people amidst the reality of their circumstance. At the same time I hope that my images explore beauty as a form of resistance - color, light, perpetual music, people on their porches rocking on chairs at every hour of the day, the way people hang their clothes up as though it were an art itself. Everywhere you go, it feels like the strongest sensory experience in contradiction with everything that I feel I have been taught growing up in the US.

Join me in December when I’ll be leading another photography trip to Cuba for female identifying creatives.

Cameras used: Fuji GA645, Nikon F100, Holga 120N, and Contax T2.