Cuban Fire
Beginning with the Pope's historic visit in 1998 through Carnivale in 2000 I made six extended, self-financed trips to Cuba to document everyday life.
With the remaining 1,000 rolls of Kodachrome from Kodak's grant (see the Mark Twain project) and a freelance photojournalist visa from The Village Voice, I photographed the Pope, the Castro brothers, Ernest Hemingway's Captain and members of the Buena Vista Social Club.
I documented Saturday night keg parties, martyrs on their way to a leper colony, psychiatric hospitals and the first legal Christmas midnight mass in 40 years. I traveled the length and breadth of the country many times, capturing everyday life along the way.
In 2006, two images from this project were acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and a selection of 20 photographs were exhibited at the International Photography Gathering in Aleppo, Syria.
In 2012, work from this project was selected by Paul Kopeikin for exhibition in the 18th Juried Exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.
In 2013, a selection of the images were featured on Photo District News' Photo of the Day column and in 2014, my Cuban Fire mock up was exhibited at and acquired by the Phoenix Art Museum.
In 2015 work from this project was selected for inclusion in the Photos of Cuba exhibition at the New Orleans Photo Alliance.
In 2016, Sean Corcoran selected work from this project for the Night exhibition at The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO.
My mock up contains 87 color photographs and may be seen here:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2197661