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Alex Fleites

Alex Fleites

Poeta, curador de arte y editor afincado en La Habana.

A man walks under the Cuban flag. A holiday in a Havana neighborhood. N/t, Havana, 2009. From the series “Cuba por dentro” (Cuba inside).

Eye on the viewer: Armando Zambrana

Armando Zambrana was born in 1962 in Havana, the city where he lives and has created most of his work, which is nourished by street events, the daily pulse of his ordinary characters, simple beings who carry out the hard job of living in quite unfavorable conditions. Zambrana is a hunter of moments. It seems as if the photographs were offering themselves to him, that he only presses the shutter and obtains the aesthetically achieved image, that of multiple interpretations, which makes us stop and reflect. But we know that is not so. His trained eye selects angles, chooses the light, decides the speed with which the diaphragm must open and close, in an act that has resulted from continued exercise, constant study, and ― perhaps most importantly ― his alert conscience of witness. He is a man who sets the flashes of reality that most sensitize him, that exalt or injure him, but that he must capture at all costs. I am sure that the Cubans of the future will also have to turn to Zambrana’s photographs to know what we were like when the imperfect beings of today dreamed of them. In passing, before giving him the floor...

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