Intense Havana & Beyond

Being a professional travel photographer, totally bilingual Spanish and having visited Cuba for the last 15 years, I will offer you many photographic opportunities related to people and cultural diversity: unique locations, spontaneous street photography, planed private photo sessions in very special surroundings.   You will have the advantage of being accompanied by a professional photographer, […]

Being a professional travel photographer, totally bilingual Spanish and having visited Cuba for the last 15 years, I will offer you many photographic opportunities related to people and cultural diversity: unique locations, spontaneous street photography, planed private photo sessions in very special surroundings.  

You will have the advantage of being accompanied by a professional photographer, with someone who knows the place intimately, who has maintained friendships in the place for years, in his own language - Spanish - and who will open the doors so that you can exchange questions and opinions freely with the excuse of photography. It's  all about our meaningfull interaction with the locals and supporting the individuals in Cuba.

We are mainly oriented toward people relations and photography: short lenses, close distance, atmospheric places. Dancers, shoemakers, barbers, entrepreuneurs and, on the way old art nouveau buildings, decadent structures.  We will have access to spontaneous street photography, portraits in close contact and personal exchange with people, Vodoo session (Santeria).  Also, private photo sessions with dancers while training and cobblers makers working and a few surprises along the way.

Personal encounters with the photographic excuse have carefully been planed and created but, finally, It’s up to the photographer what they want the experience to be. We will have access to a Vodoo session (Santeria).  Cuba National ballet dancers while training and cobblers working and a many photographic opportunities along the way.

We will be sharing and exchanging moments of real life with the people, seeking opportunities in the most interesting spots and encounters in Havana and beyond; from the budding business of markets, barbershops to working with models who will pose for us.   We will have free, daily personal photographic contact with the denizens of a vibrant city that offers continuous photographic opportunities.  Getting around the music filled streets in classic cars, browsing the Art Deco buildings of the harbor area, and exchanging ideas and conversations with the denizens of the city waking up each morning.

It is an opportunity to really meet and connect with the Cuban people, and experience the quickly-shifting cultural landscape they live in. Cuba is one of the spots on the map that is alive; ever changing, ever evolving, but ever decadent and... beautiful. So come along with us and capture this face, this angle of this enchanting country before it sweeps into its next era.

A Real-Life Cuba Photo Tour and a photographic adventure.

This photo tour  is geared above all towards personal skill development, but also personal interest. Ultimately, it’s about our experience with Cuban people, so we try to also keep it flexible.

 

What To Expect 

Harry is an international award winning, bilingual Spanish-English photographer, and a seasoned traveler of Cuba who knows all the out of the way spots where followers of Santeria (a variation  of Voodoo) practice, Cuba’s best boxers take to the canvas, and where to hang out with Havana’s rising small-business entrepreneurs.  This is a once in a lifetime chance to witness the real Cuba and it’s day to day life, and an opportunity to support and enlighten the great people of the island.

Harry,  will also advise you on how to approach the subjects, the preparation, the photographic vision, analysis of the situation.  He has traveled enough in Cuba to know the best way to approach people on their own cultural ground, which is invaluable to any traveling photographer.

- You will be interacting with locals, in close and personal contact. 

- We will also have the chance to photograph spontaneous and also formal portraits with proper preparation in photo sessions.

- We’ll have time to work on capturing the atmosphere, because let’s face it, it’s all about atmosphere. Even the most perfectly crafted shot means nothing if it doesn’t evoke feeling, transmit the ambiance, or carry the magic of the moment.

- We will enjoy on the way the city, and see the main sights, of course, but this isn’t a tour with camera included: we are  there to promote a personal contact and photograph.

- Every day will have its own special itinerary to make sure that we comply with the meaningful interaction as well as taking the best advantage of the plethora of photographic opportunities and adventures that await.