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Cuba In Waiting

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CUBA IN WAITING

The beautifully crumbling facades of buildings and infrastructure attract many visitors from all over the world who wish to catch a nostalgic glimpse of the 1940s and 1950s Cuba. However, this nostalgic beauty, and the disarming warmth of the people of Cuba, hides a reality that faces most Cubans; a reality of poverty and oppressed aspirations. Cuba has seen little change since the Revolution instigated by Fidel Castro Ruz in 1959 and there is a strong hidden desire for desperately needed change. No one wants to live like this. Taken mainly in Havana Province, this photographic essay by Erik Knudsen is the result of long wanderings around the streets of Havana and the surrounding province. Moments and fragments present themselves in front of the camera to tell a moving story of a Cuba in a state of waiting. These photographs capture an elusive hope in the sadness of waiting and a strange beauty in the decaying idealism of the revolution.

EXHIBITIONS
May 2013 – July 2013 Cervantes Institute, Manchester, UK.
October 2014 – January 2015 Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, UK.

Erik Knudsen Photography

Cowboy takes a break, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba

Erik Knudsen Photography

Erik Knudsen Photography

Erik Knudsen Photography

Erik Knudsen Photography

Elderly Woman Sits On Doorstep Havana Cuba from Cuba In Waiting by Erik Knudsen

Erik Knudsen Photography

Elderly Woman Sells Fruit And Vegetables from Cuba In Waiting 67 Havana Cuba by Erik Knudsen

Erik Knudsen Photography

Man Catches Breath By Mural in Havana Cuba

Erik Knudsen Photography

Erik Knudsen Photography

Erik Knudsen Photography

Erik Knudsen Photography

Erik Knudsen Photography

Fisherman splashed by turbulent sea on Malecon, Havana, Cuba

Erik Knudsen Photography

Erik Knudsen Photography

Mechanic having a break from Cuba In Waiting 73 - Havana, Cuba, by Erik Knudsen

Erik Knudsen Photography

Couple View Havana Harbour from Cuba In Waiting by Erik Knudsen

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