People: Children (PROFESSIONAL) - HONORABLE MENTION
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A few months ago while I was living in Cuba, in a summer afternoon, I saw a child playing on the railroad. He was playing barefoot and with only one piece of clothing on his body. The child began to follow me and asked me what I do for living. I told him that I am a photographer, and that's how our friendship began. I met his friends, his family and his reality, a reality that is repeated in many children in Cuba and worldwide. I started to take pictures and showed them how the camera worked. Each week I shared my knowledge with them, and they let me shape in my way the atmosphere they lived. Soon I began to be threatened by the authorities and I was thinking abandon the idea due to fear of jail. I had to stop the sessions and distance myself for months, but little by little and secretly I tried to finish the photos with my little friends but I could not. It is just until today that I decide to show part of the these photos, it is yet a work in progress.
I decide to show the world the reality that nobody wants to see. I decide now that I can, because I am far away from my own land, to show the world what we have done to the the children. I choose the position of one who defends their rights because I feel the pain of every child I met during my 30 years in Cuba. I direct my message not only to Cuba, but to the entire world, we are all guilty of destroying so many dreams, we are all responsible for saving the future and keeping alive the hope that our children are the future.
My desire is to travel around the world and know many cultures and places.
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A few months ago while I was living in Cuba, in a summer afternoon, I saw a child playing on the railroad. He was playing barefoot and with only one piece of clothing on his body. The child began to follow me and asked me what I do for living. I told him that I am a photographer, and that's how our friendship began. I met his friends, his family and his reality, a reality that is repeated in many children in Cuba and worldwide. I started to take pictures and showed them how the camera worked. Each week I shared my knowledge with them, and they let me shape in my way the atmosphere they lived. Soon I began to be threatened by the authorities and I was thinking abandon the idea due to fear of jail. I had to stop the sessions and distance myself for months, but little by little and secretly I tried to finish the photos with my little friends but I could not. It is just until today that I decide to show part of the these photos, it is yet a work in progress.
I decide to show the world the reality that nobody wants to see. I decide now that I can, because I am far away from my own land, to show the world what we have done to the the children. I choose the position of one who defends their rights because I feel the pain of every child I met during my 30 years in Cuba. I direct my message not only to Cuba, but to the entire world, we are all guilty of destroying so many dreams, we are all responsible for saving the future and keeping alive the hope that our children are the future.
About author:
I am a Cuban photographer who has left his country to advance his career. I usually get carried away by the complicated compositions that are forming the objects in my life, so I love landscapes and still lifes. But I have my touch of simplicity when I do portraits. I always try to search in the deepest part of my being when I write with images the message I want to convey in each of my photos. I feel very Cuban, lover of nature and the simplest things in life such as the stem of a flower or the stains on the skin of an old man.My desire is to travel around the world and know many cultures and places.
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