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Vintage automobiles.\u00a0 Architecture with Spanish and French undertones.\u00a0 More vintage automobiles.\u00a0 Caribbean colors \u2013 sometimes bright, sometimes pastel.\u00a0 Even more vintage automobiles.\u00a0 Cigars, rum, dominoes, the Buena Vista Social Club.\u00a0 Did I mention vintage automobiles?<\/p>\n

As a photographer going on a cultural exchange program to Cuba, these were some of my visual expectations.\u00a0 And why not?\u00a0 I\u2019d done my homework.\u00a0 I\u2019d looked at plenty of web sites featuring pictures of Cuba.\u00a0 I\u2019d been to other Caribbean islands and Central and South American countries.\u00a0 I\u2019m familiar with the Latino culture.\u00a0 I\u2019m also familiar with group tours, which are the current standard if you\u2019re an American from the United States travelling to Cuba.\u00a0 Group tours include being hurried along, but at least I wasn\u2019t with a whole bunch of other photographers all vying for the same subject and scaring away the wildlife.<\/p>\n

I was not disappointed.\u00a0 For me, Cuba was photographic heaven, a subject around every corner, down every alley.\u00a0 I got plenty of pictures of vintage automobiles to add to my portfolio.\u00a0 I got plenty of pictures of beautiful fa\u00e7ades with intricate iron work.\u00a0 I even got plenty of pictures of \u201cposers\u201d – people in various get-ups posing with cigars that are never lit.\u00a0 There are even people who dress up their dogs and pose with them.\u00a0 There was one guy who dressed up his donkey.\u00a0 The going rate for a picture of a poser is 1 CUC (a buck and change).\u00a0 Same goes for the human statues in Havana.<\/p>\n

But all of that was expected.\u00a0 What wasn\u2019t expected was the reception I got as an Americano.\u00a0 I don\u2019t pretend to understand most of the things governments do nor do I even begin to think that I understand what life is like in Cuba, but the Cuban people I met were particularly open and inviting and willing to share some time with me, even if just for a few, brief moments. Let me introduce you to some of them\u2026<\/p>\n

Camaguey<\/h2>\n

On my very first day in Cuba, I visited the Casanova Pottery. This is a family business started over 30 years ago in Camag\u00fcey.\u00a0 Placidly potting away was the patriarch of the family, Se\u00f1or Bernardo Valeriano Casanova Fuentes (I think I got the whole name).\u00a0 He had the exact same expression in every single picture I took of him.\u00a0 He was better than some of the human statues in Havana.\u00a0 And they weren\u2019t making pots. He also had a love for bonsai and cacti.\u00a0 Everything real slow, except for the potter\u2019s wheel.\u00a0 Both of his sons work with him, one as a potter and the other as a painter.\u00a0 They were much more animated and loved to talk about their work.\u00a0 They must take after their mother\u2019s side of the family.<\/p>\n

\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

While also in the Camag\u00fcey area, I traveled to the Rancho King, a cattle ranch owned by the King Ranch of Texas until it was seized by the Cuban state in 1959. According to some popular travel websites, the ranch is becoming quite the tourist attraction. And rightly so. The experience provides an intimate view into rural Cuba along with a rodeo and a pig roast of sorts (the rice pudding was awesome). There was even a bed where Castro had slept. Our host, Vincente, had a flock of chickens that accompanied him as he regaled us with stories and jokes.<\/p>\n

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\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

But enough about Vincente, he always gets the limelight. At some point, everyone who goes to the Rancho King goes to casa de Juana. It\u2019s right across from the school. You can\u2019t miss it. To help raise money for the school, Juana graciously invites you through her thatch-covered home and into her gardens where she serves cookies and fruit along with a little guarapo, the juice obtained by crushing sugar cane. You can even squeeze your own. Time to move on. Say bye-bye to Juana.<\/p>\n

\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

Sancti Spiritus<\/h2>\n

Sancti Spiritus looked like a really interesting place, and I took many pictures of the beautifully painted houses as we were whisked along the streets on our way to and from a paladar, the privately-owned, bright green restaurant where we had lunch.\u00a0 I was already straggling behind when I turned the corner and met the Birdman of Sancti Spiritus.\u00a0 As far as I could tell, he was out taking his birds for a walk.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t bringing them anywhere in particular.\u00a0 They were just out for a walk.\u00a0 Anyway, as soon as he saw me point my camera, he stopped, held the bird cage up, and smiled.\u00a0 Darn, I was going to be late for the bus. I wanted the picture to be mui natural, like when I first saw him just walking down the street.\u00a0 With a little coaxing, I got him to back up a little and start walking towards me again.\u00a0 He was a great sport, and a fast learner.\u00a0 By the third take, he had it down pat.\u00a0 I just love that pastel blue wall.<\/p>\n

\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

Trinidad was another picturesque city, lined with cobblestone streets. Our group stopped in Plaza Mayor, a lovely plaza surrounded by these bizarre green decorative protuberances. I don\u2019t know what else to call them. I\u2019m sure our guide explained exactly what they were and their historical significance and all that, but I\u2019m going to keep you totally in the dark here because I\u2019m not going to include a picture of these things even though I took some. What was more important, was what was across the street. Because across the street, sitting right there on the steps of the building across the street was an authentic, flesh-and-blood, cigar-smoking man.\u00a0 Not a poser, but a real-life, everyday type person actually smoking a cigar. He didn\u2019t even seem like he wanted a CUC.\u00a0 He just seemed to be amused by our group.\u00a0 Or maybe he thought it was funny that I wasn\u2019t paying attention and didn\u2019t realize that my group had moved on.<\/p>\n

\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

Havana<\/h2>\n

One of my other photographic encounters with a real live cigar smoker was in a market in Havana. There was a group of people hanging around near one of the exits having a good laugh over one of the women lighting up a big fat stogie. I\u2019m pretty fast with my camera, but she was faster. As soon as she saw me swing my lens in her direction, that stogie was out of sight and she was headed toward the street.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t a professional poser, but it was an opportunity that I couldn\u2019t let pass by. I said the magic word. I certainly have no moral qualms against compensating people for their time and I surely couldn\u2019t have found a more enthusiastic and animated amateur model.<\/p>\n

\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

Many of my interactions throughout Cuba were with the artist community \u2013 painters, potters, singers, dancers.\u00a0 In a country that has so many needs, I was surprised and delighted to see so much attention paid to the arts.\u00a0 One of the performances I attended was at a school for performing arts in Cienfuegos.\u00a0 The children were wonderful and I got some nice shots of a girl twirling her dress and a strapping young lad strutting his stuff with a hat and cane, but most of my memory card got dedicated to a woman sitting on the stairs behind the area where the children were singing and dancing.\u00a0 She sat there the entire time.\u00a0 Sometimes she looked out the window, where there were passersby who stopped to watch the performance. Sometimes she looked to her right, right into my lens. I got the impression that she was the mother of one of the kids who was singing and dancing. I don\u2019t know exactly why I think that, but I went to a lot of my own kids\u2019 performances.<\/p>\n

\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

In Cojimar, a small port to the east of Havana, I had the distinguished opportunity to have lunch with Osvaldo Conero, who in his younger days went fishing with Ernest Hemingway.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Osvaldo and the interpreter were seated at the far end of the table and not talking anywhere near loud enough for my failing hearing (so says my wife), so I took the time to get better acquainted with our bus driver, Ren\u00e9, who was sitting next to me.\u00a0 After all, Ren\u00e9 had to keep waiting for me. And we go to the same barber.\u00a0 Kidding aside, the streets of most Cuban towns and big buses (it was a 6 speed Yutong) are not really compatible, and Ren\u00e9 did an admirable job piloting that behemoth along narrow streets filled with horse-drawn carts and bicitaxis (pedicabs), not to mention the vintage cars.<\/p>\n

\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

I did mention the vintage cars, didn\u2019t I?\u00a0 Ren\u00e9 has two daughters. One is a teenager and the other just a nene. I would drive a tour bus too. Sitting even further away from me, was a young man who was also a fisherman, but never had the distinction of going fishing with Papa.\u00a0 The sun was shining, so I don\u2019t know why he wasn\u2019t out fishing, but there he was having lunch with us and something about him just made me want to take his picture.\u00a0 So, as everyone was getting ready to leave and taking pictures of all the people at their table, with the hostess, with the bartender, with the busboy, etc., I asked the young man to lean against this rusty old gas pump that was in the restaurant and say queso.\u00a0 Only in Cuba have I ever seen a rusty old gas pump in a restaurant.\u00a0 I never did get his name.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just call him Jed.<\/p>\n

\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, and here\u2019s a picture of Osvaldo.\u00a0 After all, he was the famous guy.\u00a0 But the gem of my stop in Cojimar, was a young boy, one of many children we encountered running along the seaside streets. The children were running, not us. This one kid had a particular swagger about him. You could just tell he wanted you to think he was tough. He wanted you to think he was cool, the big man on campus, or whatever the proper slang is these days. Like it would even be the same word in the US and on the streets of Cojimar.\u00a0 Only problem was that some tourist had given him a Tootsie Pop.<\/p>\n

\"cuban<\/a>\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

Back on the streets of old Havana, our bus had stopped at the large marketplace on the waterfront and everyone was busy shopping for \u201citems of cultural significance.\u201d\u00a0 No \u201csouvenirs\u201d for these international ambassadors of cultural interaction. Everyone was shopping that is, except for me. I took the time to wander the streets nearby where I met this woman collecting recyclables out of the waste receptacles. No, she wasn\u2019t rummaging through the garbage cans. OK, she was rummaging through the garbage cans, but she was only intent on collecting empty plastic bottles. I led her over to our bus, where in a single pass down the aisle I tripled the size of her collection.\u00a0 In exchange, she was more than happy to let me take her picture, but she had her own concept of how to pose. Even a CUC on the side, wouldn\u2019t change that.\u00a0 This was her one and only pose and this time I was the first one back to the bus.<\/p>\n

\"cuban<\/a><\/p>\n

My final portrait is of an elderly gentleman that I bumped into while walking through the busy streets of Sancti Spiritus.\u00a0 I literally bumped into him.\u00a0 Pardon.\u00a0 He seemed like a wizened old man, his hollowed eyes glazing over a long, hard life.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure if you went there you could bump into him too.\u00a0 Maybe he\u2019d be up for a game of dominoes.<\/p>\n

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