1st Avenue

CUBA - expired

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1st Avenue
10 de Octubre
Acapulco Gas Station
Almendares I
Bar El Mundo
Boats of Jaimanitas
Bodega in Old Havana
Calle 23 y4
Calle Cardenas II
Calle Cardenas
Calle en Trinidad II
Capitol
Carpenderia
Cars 336
Cars 340
Cars at Train Station I
Cars at Train Station II
Cars at Train Station III
Casa Cohiba
Casa de la Trova I
Casa de la Trova II
Casa de la Trova III
Casa de las Porras II
Casa de las Porras III
Casa de las Porras
Casablanca I
Casablanca II
Castillo De Morro
Che at Calle Cardenas
Cinema Acapulco
Cinema Alba
Cinema Apolo
Cinema Arenal
Cinema Avenida
Cinema Mantilla
Cinema Mella
Cremeria La Vina
Cuba Colonial
Dependiente
Elio with friends I
Elio with friends II
Elio with friends III
Fans in old Havana
Forest in cuba I
Forest in cuba II
Forest in cuba III
Graffiti II
Graffiti of Ché
Grafitti at calle Cardenas
Grand Teatro II
Grand Teatro
Havana by night
Havana Riviera
Havana Stadium
House in Punta Brava
House of  Mercedes - bathroom I
House of Alberto II
House of Alberto
House of Alonso - birds
House of Alonso - chess
House of Alonso - corridor
House of Alonso - kitchen
House of Alonso - room
House of Alonso - stairway
House of Ana II
House of Ana III
House of Ana
House of Bermudez II
House of Bermudez III
House of Bermudez IV
House of Bermudez
House of Bola de Nieve II
House of Bolade Nieve I
House of Carlos Perez
House of Chedy
House of Chino I
House of Chino II
House of Chino III
House of Chino IV
House of Chino V
House of Chino VI
House of Coqui I
House of Coqui II
House of Dagoberto neu
House of Dagoberto
House of Eduardo I
House of Eduardo II
House of Eduardo III
House of Eulalia
House of Eva I
House of Eva III
House of Evangelina I
House of Evangelina II
House of Evangelina
House of Ever
House of Fefa - hall
House of Fefa I - (stairway)
House of Fefa II
House of Flora
House of Garcia - entrance
House of Garcia - terrasse
House of Garcia I
House of Garcia II
House of Gerardo & Teresas I
House of Gerardo & Teresas II
House of Gerardo & Teresas III
House of Gerardo & Teresas IV
House of Heredia - couch
House of Heredia - still life
House of Leidi
House of Leo I
House of Leo
House of Lilian Montes de Oca I
House of Lilian Montes de Oca II
House of Lilian Montes de Oca III
House of Luis Rodriguez Dueñas
House of Luisa Faxas - hall
House of Luisa Faxas
House of Magali I
House of Magali II
House of Magali III
House of Magali IV
House of Magali V
House of Maria
House of Marta & Delfins I
House of Marta & Delfins II
House of Mary I
House of Mary
House of Mercedes  - chair
House of Mercedes  - kitchen
House of Mercedes  - still life
House of Mercedes - bathroom II
House of Mercedes - bedroom II
House of Mercedes - entrance
House of Mercedes - hall II
House of Mercedes - hall
House of Mercedes - watch
House of Mercedes
House of Pamela
House of Paula II
House of Paula
House of Pedro
House of Regla I
House of Regla II
House of Regla III
House of Ruth
House of Sarah
House of Savreda - (hall)
House of Savreda I
House of Savreda II
House of Savreda IV
House of Savreda V
House of Savreda VI
House of Savreda VIII
Jesus Maria
Jesus Statue
La Bombonera I
La Bombonera II
La Guarida
Latino Americana
Liceo de Guanabacoa
Malecon by night
Malecon I
Malecon II
Mercado Egido
Nautico
Oquendo
Packa I
Packa II
parque lenin boats end
Pharmacy Centro Habana
Playa Santa Fe I
Playa Santa Fe II
Plaza del Stadion
Prado
Puente Almendares
San Lazaro
San Miguel y Aguila I
San Miguel y Aguila II
San Miguel y Aguila III
Solar Aguiar I
Solar Aguiar III
Solar Aguiar IV
Solar at Cuba Street
Solar en San Lazaro
Solar Habana y Amargua I
Solar Habana y Amargura II
Solar Habana y Amargura III
Solar Habana y Amargura IV
Solar in Old Havana II
Solar in Old Havana
Solar in San Ignacio
Solar Luz y Compostela
Solimar II
Solimar
Stairway Vedado II
Statue at Malecon
Street in Old Havana
Teatro America - bathroom
Teatro America
Teatro Campo Amor I
Teatro Campo Amor II
Teatro Campo Amor III
Teatro Campo Amor
Teatro Verdun - stairs
Teatro Verdun I
Teatro Verdun II
Tivoli
Tropicana
View from Castillo de Morro I
View from Castillo de Morro II

Cuba - expired
Fifty years have passed since, on new years eve of 1959, cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista precipitously flew from havana and the power over the sugar-island fell into Fidel Castro’s hands. In the meanwhile, the era of the Máximo Líder came to an end, too, and the pictures in which Werner Pawlok tells about the morbid charm of an old carribbean metropole almost show a part of history themselves. The splendour and misery of the cuban utopia, the projecto cubano, melt together so obviously in these abandoned palaces of the old sugar-aristocracy. Pawlok tracks this sunken world during his rambles through Havana. Nevertheless, what concerns him about it has nothing to do with nostalgy. He doesn’t show picturesque ruins but traces the incomparable vitality of the habaneroswhich has such a fascinating impact on us europeans. At first glance, this seems paradox as his sceneries usually are deserted. But under the surface, in a subtle way, the people who are living here are always present. Then, at a second glance it becomes obvious that, while roaming through Havana, Werner Pawlok has no deserted world in mind. He rather wants to comprehend the inhabitants and their spirit when he uses the release of his camera. He manages to seek out the unbending life that adds dignity to these places. An undertone of cheerful serenity and despair resonates in their silence, familiar and strange at once.

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