35 Exposure:

A ILHA

Dario Dominica

DE 14 DECEMBER 2013 The 02 MARCH 2014

HAVANA - February, 2001 -
The interior of an old CDR (Defence Committee of the Revolution) in the heart of Old Havana. The CDRs were, from semper, the local political and social activities. For the government they also played an important civil society control mechanism.

HAVANA - October, 2003 -
A workshop for the repair of televisions and other appliances. Cubans have to face the chronic lack of supplies and spare parts, due to the economic embargo.

Great SSagua (SANTA CLARA) - December, 2000 -
Mother and son in their house in the country. Due to economic difficulties and the lack of housing, is common to see different generations who end up living beneath the same roof.

HAVANA - September, 1997 -
In Havana, is often run into spontaneous street parties, organized despite the scarce resources that people have. This is what makes the Magic City.

HAVANA - December, 1999 -
A view of PNR (National Revolutionary Police) during the celebration of a "Carnavalito". From the decade of '90 the state has progressively increased police salaries, to contain the phenomenon of corruption.

Santiago de las Vegas (HAVANA) - December, 1996 -
A veteran of the war in Angola. In the days before the feast of St. Lazaro many beggars begging in front of the church where the pilgrims arrive.

San Cristobal (PINAR DEL RIO) - November, 2002 -
On the road to Pinar del Rio. Transport is one of the most critical problems in everyday life of the Cuban people. In the early 90, the government introduced a law authorizing the transport of persons with cargo trucks, when they travel empty.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA - March, 2000 –
A maior parte de sistema de compra-venda cubano esta baseado no Peso Convertible, introduced by the government in early 1994. This currency is officially recognized only in the country and the Caribbean since its introduction it has generated a dual economy. The salaries of all Cubans are in local currency and only a small part of the population has access to Weight Convertible.

HAVANA - August, 1998 -
Part some clubs for tourists, There are only bars in national currency. These are the bars of the State and only sell rum, cigarettes and little else.

HAVANA - July, 2006 _
Cubans show a great interest in reading books and foreign texts, due to lack of international news nationwide. Cuba has a literacy rate that reaches the 98% population.

El Rincon ( HAVANA ) - December, 2001 –
Todos os anos, do not 17 Dec., we celebrate the feast of St. Lazaro. It is the most important date in the calendar of "Santeria" Cuban. The Santeria is a religious syncretism that is born of the encounter between Catholicism and African religion, Yoruba. This cult, that formed between the slaves in the first half of the century 19, is practiced for about 70% two Cuban.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA - January, 2006 –
Torneio de Domino na rua. This simple board game is not only the most practiced after baseball, but it is also a favorite pastime of all Cuban generations.

HAVANA - August, 1996 –
Vendedor de frango. In the fall of 1994, the Cuban government decided to reopen the agricultural markets, sealed in 1981, to address the dire food shortages in the cities. The black market alone could not ensure access to basic products for the entire population.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA - March, 2000 –
Para todas as meninas, the anniversary of fifteen years is the extent of maturity, symbolizing the entrance into society. Families experience this moment with great emotion and make all kinds of sacrifices to celebrate it as it should be.

HAVANA - May, 2002 –
Há muitos carros americanos antigos que ainda circulam na ilha. Most of them were converted into taxi or collective vehicles, trying to compensate for the lack of public transport.

La Boca (TRINIDAD) - July, 2004 –
O pequeno balneário La Boca está na foz do rio Caña, a few miles from Trinidad. The place is frequented exclusively by Cubans who like to spend the day drinking rum and bathing.

SANTA CLARA - October, 1997 –
Os restos mortais de Ernesto Guevara, known as "Che", returned to Cuba in October 1997. A long procession of people, of any age, waited hours to see the passage of the spoils and honor this beloved hero.

KILLS - April, 2005 –
Treinamento na rua para as competições provinciais de boxe. A school Boxe Cuba, founded in 1964, is considered the best among all the federations in the world. During the last 30 years, she managed 32 Olympic champions, 63 world champions and 64 world titles at the World Youth Championship.

HAVANA - October, 1994 –
Desde que Castro esteve no poder o nível de pobreza ficava num nível aceitável devido à ajuda econômica da União Soviética, that allowed a decent social assistance. The crisis of the 90 was the passage of this "welfare" the greater vulnerability of most social classes.

HAVANA - December, 1997 –
Travestis se preparando antes de um show. After the first years of the Revolution, the government makes a pretty tough policy of discrimination against homosexuals. The deep root "Macho" Cuban society, for decades has gays and transvestites further marginalized.

TRINIDAD - September, 2003 -
Maternity Clinic. O "maternal home" is a medical and hospital structure where women with risk pregnancy is being closely monitored. This great attention for motherhood allowed Cuba to become the country with the lowest maternal mortality in developing countries.

Remedios (SANTA CLARA) - December, 2003 –
Cada ano no dia 24 Dec., is held to "Clubbing" Remedios. The Parranda is a typical redneck party where two districts challenge themselves in a competition of fireworks.

Casablanca (HAVANA ) - June, 1997 –
Garota na fila de espera para comprar pizzas caseiras. The liberalization of self-employment came in 1994, in the middle of the "Special Period". For the first time Cubans were free to start a commercial enterprise, and done in your own home, selling food and drinks.

HAVANA - April, 1999 –
Até o fim dos anos ’90 a maioria dos cubanos usava os telefones públicos na rua, they were really few those who had a telephone at home. Even today there are phones in the homes are not allowed to make international calls.

Dario Dominic noticed something that just happens em Cuba. It is the frenzy of the revolution, or death. Nor is it the colorful and submissive languor of the Caribbean people, or obsession – that existed anyway – the absolute model. All these photos seem familiar and close, Known and imperfect. But imperfection is friendly, without the distance of folklore or claim of superiority look out. It is the only true artist can do; in each plane, as perfect as can, breathes life, without artifice and assembly. These images show all at the same time they want the well. They are a true document, but also full of affection. A bit like many of us “feel” Cuba.

Furio Colombo
Italian writer and journalist who has been director of L'Unita
Journal of the Italian Communist Party.

The Italian Dario De Dominicis works as a professional since 1993, collaborating with some agencies of photojournalism in Rome. His photographs have been published in various newspapers and magazines, as European, Expressed, Panorama, El Pais, World, Newsweek, Sunday Time, The mirror, International, Seven and a woman I do Corriere della Sera, Carta Capital, Morning Post.
In 1999 carries a story about the life of seminarians at the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, published during the Jubilee 2000 by the Vicariate of Rome. In 2001 ends a photographic survey of four years on the monarchy in Italy, distributed by the agency Contrasto. Of 2002 a 2009 was professor of photojournalism at the State Institute of Film and Television Roberto Rossellini, de Roma. From 2003 dedicated to personal photography projects, besides teaching collaborations with schools as Officine Fotografiche, where courses in reportage and documentary photography. In 2004 part of the organizing committee of the festival of photography FotoLeggendo, in Rome.
From 1994 accompanies the complex transformation of Cuba after the fall of the socialist bloc in Europe. This design gives the book A Cuban history, published by Postcart.

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