WAITING

  • Dates
    2015 - 2016
  • Author
  • Topics Portrait, Editorial, Documentary

CUBA

In Cuba all is about patience and waiting.

The Waiting series are portraits of cuban/havanean people in their homes.

They talk about what they were/are waiting for regarding Cuban recent and old history.

They were waiting to live a diferent life and waiting for a life in a different country.

Today, after so many years, a door of hope seems to finally make that wait come to end.

I tried to get away from those cliches that we are habituated to see about Cuba and

focus in the people, in what they think and wait for their lives

© Luis Cobelo - Azucena Plasencia, 73 years old. Journalist. "I expect a real change in my country."
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Azucena Plasencia, 73 years old. Journalist. "I expect a real change in my country."

© Luis Cobelo - Image from the WAITING photography project
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Carlos Manuel Marin. 64 years old. “I expect let´s have our feet in the ground to this great challenges comes for the future.”

© Luis Cobelo - Luis Trápaga. 52 years old. Artist. “I wait something but I can´t say it”
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Luis Trápaga. 52 years old. Artist. “I wait something but I can´t say it”

© Luis Cobelo - Lia Villares. 30 years old. Blogger. I want to act, to do something, not wait."
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Lia Villares. 30 years old. Blogger. I want to act, to do something, not wait."

© Luis Cobelo - Gorki Aguila. Leader of the punk band Porno Para Ricardo."I'm pretending that I am waiting something but I am not".
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Gorki Aguila. Leader of the punk band Porno Para Ricardo. "I'm pretending that I am waiting something but I am not".

© Luis Cobelo - Virginia Molina, 61 years old. Teacher. "I'm from the generation of those who do not expect anything."
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Virginia Molina, 61 years old. Teacher. "I'm from the generation of those who do not expect anything."

© Luis Cobelo - Noelsy Benitez. 24 years old. "I hope to travel but always return to Cuba, have a family and be close to my twin sister."
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Noelsy Benitez. 24 years old. "I hope to travel but always return to Cuba, have a family and be close to my twin sister."

© Luis Cobelo - Image from the WAITING photography project
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Maria Izquierdo. 33 years old. Contemporary artist. "I hope to be recognized by my real talent, which is exercise my sensitivity."

© Luis Cobelo - Yainet Gonzales, 18 years. "I hope to be someone”.
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Yainet Gonzales, 18 years. "I hope to be someone”.

© Luis Cobelo - Image from the WAITING photography project
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Amelia tejera, 78 years old. Saleswoman in a bakery in downtown. “I expect hope good health for my children and my grandchildren”

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