Tagged With: Cuban
Testimony of an Exile/Testimonio de Un Exiliado
Text: Francisco Collazo Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo ** Photo: waitingalessio Time and distance heal all wounds… so goes the old saying. It’s one that’s always been close to me as an immigrant. Sometimes it’s been a true description of my experiences, and other times, not so much. For example, those experiences that compelled me to … Continue reading
Bohemia
Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo ** If I associate Mexico with the “danzon” dances in public parks on Sundays, I associate Puerto Rico with its romantic “bohemias” on Thursdays and weekends. Before, this word “bohemia” held allusions to the past. I imagined a singer in the middle of a medieval garden, … Continue reading
Historic Photo Exhibit Opens in Cuba This Friday
Who knew that the gift of a simple point-and-shoot digital camera five years ago would lead to this? When I first met Francisco’s son, Brayan, in 2003, I gave him a simple Pentax. He immediately fell in love with photography, and even his earliest images proved that he had an incredible eye and the innate … Continue reading
The Yoani Sanchez Phenomenon
A few years ago, I was reading the Sunday Times when I saw it: the full page ad in the Arts and Leisure section announcing that Sean Combs (you know, the man who’s variously gone by the monikers Puff, Puff Daddy, Puffy, P-Diddy, and Diddy) was now starring in “Chicago” on Broadway. Huh? Photo: nycarthur … Continue reading
Book Review: The Island of Eternal Love
Text & Photos: Julie Schwietert Collazo Dragon/License Plate Photo: Brayan Collazo * I’m not a regular reader of fiction. I find real life far too interesting. But it was my interest in real life—specifically, my own work interviewing Chinese Cubans in Havana that began in 2008—that led me to Daina Chaviano’s novel, The Island of … Continue reading
