Between Here and Paradise by

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Between Here and Paradise

Copyright Rena Effendi 2024

Updated Apr 2018

Topics Documentary, Photography, Photojournalism

At first glance, Havana seems to be frozen in time with its characters and vistas like relics from another era "“ but by looking deeper, one can recognize slight movements for change that have taken place in the past few years. For the first time in several decades, Cubans are allowed to own apartments, cars and even run small private businesses. Old communist slogans still adorn the streets, but the colors have faded. I went to the streets and neighborhoods of Havana that set the scene in the detective stories of a prominent Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura. Just like in his books, Havana revealed itself as a grubby city on the brink of change, its disheveled facades and photogenic patina reflecting not romance, but mystery, like future, waiting to be revealed.

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