House of Chino I

Cuba - expired Vol. III

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House of Chino I
House of Maria
Solar Habana y Amargura II
Solar en San Lazaro
Solar Habana y Amargua I
House of Alberto II
House of Bola de Nieve II
House of Bolade Nieve I
Acapulco Gas Station
Calle Cardenas II
Bar El Mundo
Cuba Colonial
Calle en Trinidad II
Casa de las Porras
Casa de las Porras II
Solar Habana y Amargura IV
Casa de las Porras III
Cremeria La Vina
House in Punta Brava
Solar Luz y Compostela
House of Alberto
House of Ana
House of Ana II
Solar Habana y Amargura III
House of Ana III
House of Chedy
House of Chino II
Statue at Malecon
House of Chino III
House of Chino IV
House of Chino V
House of Ever
House of Chino VI
House of Dagoberto
House of Eduardo I
House of Eduardo III
House of Eduardo II
House of Eulalia
House of Pamela
San Miguel y Aguila III
House of Ruth
La Bombonera II
Liceo de Guanabacoa
La Bombonera I
Mercado Egido
Nautico
Playa Santa Fe I
Carpenderia
Playa Santa Fe II
San Miguel y Aguila I
San Miguel y Aguila II
Street in Old Havana

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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