Public Project
Cuba 1959: The Second Front
Alinka Echeverría
Cuba 1959: The Second Front
The series Cuba 1959: The Second Front, is a work in progress, on the collective memory and remembrance of the veterans of the Cuban Revolution. Through portraits of these men in their homes, Alinka attempts to visually extract fragments of these men’s collective memory to unveil anonymous life stories, which have become opaque by political discourse, and a battle between world powers. The process of being photographed wearing their military uniforms and medals, provoked, in many an emotional journey into their past and created a space for self-reflection of their identity as veterans of a war that changed their nation forever.
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