My advice to anyone travelling to Cuba is to take up smoking. Preferably cigars. It goes with the landscape, the concept: if you define a place by its smell, Cuba is the rich but subtle aroma of a hand-rolled Havana. If we delve deeper into the fragrances of Cuba we would recall the tang of the Caribbean and, across the spectrum, the sad smell of poverty and neglect.
Cuba is a paradox, a web of contradictions that David Alan Harvey has captured in Cuba, a lush collection of photographs that takes you into the heart of the Cuban myth.
Harvey worked for National Geographic for more than two decades, so it comes as no surprise that he knows his way around the camera. But where we can appreciate Harvey's craft, it is the ability to take us... MORE