Images of Havana
ArtSpace 106, Burlington, Vermont. September, 2015 - May, 2016.
The photographs in this exhibition are fragments, extracted from a storied city and its vibrant and expansive culture. I had the great fortune of spending two weeks in Havana in January of 2015. I was particularly drawn to the streets of Central Havana, with its crumbling layers of history and the boisterous rhythms of people, music, songbirds, and pre-Revolution car engines. I felt welcomed by the Cubans I encountered and was graciously received in the dense neighborhoods and mazes of apartments, alleys and courtyards.
All of the images were captured on black-and-white film, of varying speeds, and lith-printed in the darkroom in limited batches. Lith printing is an alternative development technique that causes an explosion of the image grain and a shift in color toward warm brown tones. It is a difficult process to control and the best lith papers are no longer manufactured. For this exhibition, I used most of my cherished stock of Forte Polywarmtone paper, last made in Hungary nearly 10 years ago.
11x14 inch, one-of-a-kind signed archival prints are available for sale