I left Havana when I was 5 years old; It took 30 some years for me to return with my mother and father. Growing up I had heard the stories about our other life and about all we had lost. I had to retrieve Havana from under it’s bell jar and see it without the politics and nostalgia I had grown up with; and experience Havana as if visiting a sunken ship with it’s myriad of treasures that had been preserved by neglect.
In so re-visiting my birthplace, I have been able to make some sense of it all, where memory and reality meet and how this has molded me into the artist I am today.
Many of these photos are being seen here for the first time; They were shot using an old Nikon SLR which my father gave me as a teenager.
Sergio Baradat © 2012
Portrait photo by Esther Nisanova
Invitation to the exhibition
PRESS (click here for PDF view)
The above video was projected on the jumbotron at The Eventi Hotel in New York, during the ASI CUBA Festival.
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