Pino Ninfa, Havana Noir

Havana Noir

Pino Ninfa

Publisher
89books
Year
2023
ISBN
979-12-80423-51-1
Specifications
Softcover
29 x 25 cm
60 pages
30 black and white photographs
Digital print
1 poster 48 x 34 cm included
Design by 89books

A few years ago, I passed Cuban nights through Havana’s streets, and they were always accompanied by a sense of cheerfulness. Today, joy and smiles are changed in sense of resignation and disappoint due to the situation of total social disease that has been created with the economic collapse after Covid. For example: two years ago, a doctor or a professor earned about 130-150 euro per month, nowadays, because the inflation, their salary became 30-40 euro per month. So, walking around in the cities at twilight, I meet shadows and ghosts instead of exuberance which I met past years. As a writer searching ideas for to write, I looked for tracking a presence in those shadows, a map of existence without pre-established filters.

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