BazanPhotos | Student Photography Galleries | June 2005

Photography by Ernesto Bazan

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In June of 2005, I made my first trip to Cuba, as a participant in Ernesto’s first Baracoa workshop. Cuba was an unknown land to me, although I had heard stories about it from those who had visited Cuba in the 1940s. I tried to photograph the people as I saw them. The Cuban people generously prepared fresh fish, lobster, rice and beans for us despite frequent losses of electrical power. We danced to the beat of Cuban music at a little boy’s birthday party and watched betting at a cockfight on the weekend. We relaxed and swam in a beautiful river; we watched children playing baseball on the beach. We visited all these places with our cameras. These photographs are an attempt to capture a small part of what I experienced.

Linda Kay Myers

That's just beautiful ... fucking beautiful ... writing the text ... so much shit is going on in my life ... just can't fucking concentrate at all.

Here's is the first thing that comes to my mind after Cuba: E..E...E...ERNESTO - I'M GLAD I MET YOU !!!

Peter Prusinowski

My guidebook says that getting to Baracoa by car is an adventure. We didn't get there by car, but even so, getting there was an adventure. We experienced rain delays that delayed our arrival. When we did arrive, however, the sun came out to show us a jewel set between the blue sea and a green mountain backdrop. For a week we lived and photographed in and around that jewel. We swam in clear rivers, ate shrimp and lobster on white beaches, danced at birthday celebrations, hiked up mountainsides to remotes houses--all the while working hard to get some good images. Thanks to Ernesto once again (this was my eighth workshop).

Willard Pate