Patria o Muerte, Havana, 1996
Gelatin Silver Print
16 x 20 in.
Waiting for coffee, Regla, 1995
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 14 in.
Santeria altar, Havana, 1995
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 14 in.
Man selling Granma newspapers, Havana, 1995
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 14 in.
Children playing with soap bubbles, Havana, 1998
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 14 in.
Children playing with balloons, Havana, 1998
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 14 in.
Girls holding hands, Havana, 1998
Gelatin Silver Print
16 x 20 in.
Slow dancing, Havana, 1995
Gelatin Silver Print
16 x 20 in.
Clown, Havana, 1998
Silver Gelatin Print
20 x 24 in.
Musicians rehearsing, Havana, 1998
Silver Gelatin Print
16 x 20 in.
Playing dominoes, Havana, 1995
Gelatin Silver Print
16 x 20 in.
Cock-fighting arena, Remedios, 1995
Silver Gelatin Print
11 x 14 in.
Girls holding hands, Havana, 1998
Gelatin Silver Print
16 x 20 in.
Boys jumping off the Malecón, Havana, 1996
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 14 in.
Dive, Havana, 1995
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 14 in.
Afro-cuban dancers, Havana, 1996
Gelatin Silver Print
16 x 20 in.
Gynecologist listening to fetal heartbeat, Remedios, 1996
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 14 in.
Devotee offering candles to Saint Lazarus, Santiago de las Vegas, 1995
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 14 in.
Children, Mickey Mouse, and Minnie Mouse, Viñales, 2003
Gelatin Silver Print
13 x 20 in.
Young wrestlers, Havana, 2003
Gelatin Silver Print
13 x 20 in.
Che and fashion girls, Viñales, 2003
Silver Gelatin Print
13 x 20 in.
Boy hanging upside down, Trinidad, 2005
Gelatin Silver Print
13 x 20 in.
Family on the porch, Viñales, 2002
Silver Gelatin Print
13 x 20 in.
Tu aporte es decisivo, Havana, 2003
Silver Gelatin Print
13 x 20 in.
Ernesto Bazan’s black-and-white photographs, from the vivid street life he captured in the first years after his arrival in Cuba in 1992, to the contemplative panoramic images of ISLA taken in the years just prior to his departure in 2006, documents one of the most complex times for the island country. Yet, grounded in warmth, and borne from the artist’s deeply treasured connection with the people of Cuba, the series conveys the heady, erratic energy through the lens of an insider.
Bazan is the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant; Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography; Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize at Duke University, NC; and the World Press Photo award; as well as fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2009, his book “Bazan Cuba” was awarded Book of the Year at the New York Photo Festival, and his panoramic series ISLA was published for the first time in 2014.
SELECT COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL
Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy
Musée Réattu, Arles, France
