Ernesto Bazan
BazanCuba

Public lecture: April 27 2009 at 5pm

Press release

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Ernesto Bazan comes to Fabrica to present his latest book, BazanCuba, a photographic history of his many years on the island. The book is in part a reportage which brings out the essence of everyday life in photos of unknown people on the streets of Cuba and in part follows a more intimate, personal approach in his portraits of his life with his family and his beloved farmer friends.
Thus, Bazan is not just a spectator of Cuban life; he becomes part of that life, keeping company with the Cubans and sharing their joys and woes.

Ernesto Bazan

Ernesto Bazan was born in Palermo in 1959.

He has exhibited in Europe, Latin America and the United States. His photographs are in private collections and in major museums, including MOMA and the ICP, New York; the SFMOMA, San Francisco; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Fondazione Italiana della Fotografia, Turin; and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

From 1992 to 2006 he documented Cuba’s Special Period. This work earned him major international accolades, including the W. Eugene Smith, the Mother Jones Foundation for Photojournalism, the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, the World Press Photo, two study grants from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and one from the Guggenheim Foundation.

In 2002 Ernesto Bazan created the BazanPhotos workshops, with a special emphasis on Latin America.

He has published several books: Il Passato Perpetuo, Passing Through, The First Twenty Years, Island and Molo Nord.

In 2008 he published BazanCuba, which documents his 14 years of life and photography on the island.

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Ernesto Bazan