Cuba in Between

"Photographing Cuba is a risk. The cliché is lurking in every street in Habana Vieja. It's a trap, insidious, in which Nicholas Lanfranchi has not fallen, "knows a reporter like John Porzio, that so the author praised the show in Cuba Between (until January 29 to OpenMind Gallery, Milan). The photographer has chosen to portray the daily cross and marginal, staying away from the iconography of classic country.


Sure, there are the old faces wrinkled with the hat or buildings with peeling murals, but also reveals a new generation who dreams like those of other countries. Boys t-shirt with stars and stripes, skateboarding and iPod firmly planted in my ears, far from the imagination of salsa dancer who catch the most unprepared tourist.

For those who have visited Cuba will be like dust in the end apparently anonymous memory, and for those who have never had the chance shots of Nicholas Lanfranchi will prove an excellent guide to plan your trip. How To Cuba in Between, photographs by Nicholas Lanfranchi, to OpenMind Gallery, Via Dante 12, Milan.

Until January 29.

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