Habana taxi

Habana Taxi

My visit to Cuba was in September 2016. The first thing that stroke me in Havana was the “time” the people live in. The poverty and disconnection from the rest of the world was shocking for me. This shock gave me a creative drive to connect with people and make a visual story about them.

The concept I had was to capture, through a visual language, the “time of the Cuban people”. I started making portraits of the locals traveling in old cars. These pictures represented the time of Havana, in motion, in a state of change towards the unknown. I was trying to connect in a human way with the Cuban people, interacting with emotions, sympathy and with sincere curiosity. Simultaneously, I was focusing on the old-timer cars that stroll around the city as museum objects. Therefore I use the car frames as an image frame to the portraits. The photographs were made less than two months before the Cuban leader Fidel Castro died.