Cuba's Wild Private Life
A photographer of Cuban descent explores the island's behind-the-scenes beauty.
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Manuello Paganelli has made 60 trips to Cuba throughout the past 25 years. His new book, Cuba: A Personal Journey 1989-2015, includes a compliation of 115 black and white images that explore Cuba's beautiful land and culture. An American photographer of Cuban descent, Paganelli explores the city of Havana and the surrounding countryside, political rallies, weddings, funerals and cockfights to paint a complex tabelau of the island nation.
Pictured here: My Cuban Cousin, Nuevitas Summer, 1994
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Professional Dancers, 2014
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Heading to the Farm, 2005
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Volleyball Players, 1993
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Beauty Shop, 2003
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Baseball Fever in the City, 2010
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Wedding Day, 1999
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Boys Will Be Boys, 1991
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Elementary Classroom, Nuevitas, 1995
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Cuban Buddies, Florida, 1990
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Farmers, Oxen & Dog, 2001
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Hip Hop Havana, 1995
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Waiting for their Dad, 1997
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Una Santerita, 1998
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Commandante Ernesto "Che" Guevara, 1995
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