honorable mention
Luciano del Castillo italy
title
Happy Identity in motion. Cuba and the countless questions
The desperate and never quelled hope of revival emerges in a social environment that until now has not been prey to anxiety consumerist and inhuman pace of global competition. An environment of people who live, maybe in a hard way with few material possessions, conscious of the financial constraints, but serene in facing the burdens of daily life, although occasionally they may lack water, electricity or soap. What will the end of the embargo bring? The US companies will export all types of technology: mobile phones, televisions, recorders, computers and software in this country, poor for Internet and telecommunications infrastructure. What will the opening of borders bring? What impact will it have on the people who, together, managed to defeat the enemy coming out of a completely asymmetrical comparison? Will Cubans lose that light mixed with melancholy pride that make them so unique? What will change after Fidel’s death? What the new US Presidency will change again?
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entry description
Happy Identity in motion. Cuba and the countless questionsThe desperate and never quelled hope of revival emerges in a social environment that until now has not been prey to anxiety consumerist and inhuman pace of global competition. An environment of people who live, maybe in a hard way with few material possessions, conscious of the financial constraints, but serene in facing the burdens of daily life, although occasionally they may lack water, electricity or soap. What will the end of the embargo bring? The US companies will export all types of technology: mobile phones, televisions, recorders, computers and software in this country, poor for Internet and telecommunications infrastructure. What will the opening of borders bring? What impact will it have on the people who, together, managed to defeat the enemy coming out of a completely asymmetrical comparison? Will Cubans lose that light mixed with melancholy pride that make them so unique? What will change after Fidel’s death? What the new US Presidency will change again?
about the photographer
Luciano del Castillo, Palermo 1960, started working in 1980 as a photojournalist in Palermo for daily newspaper “L’Ora” and the agency “Informazione fotografica” by Letizia Battaglia and Franco Zecchin. In 1987, Castillo collaborated for "Action Press" in Hamburg on issues in Eastern European nations such as Romania, Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. In 1986 and also from 1994 to 1996, he realized monographic dossiers for Iberian television TV3. In 1994 in Rome he worked for national and international newspapers and magazines. From 1995 to April 2002, he worked for Agenzia Internazionale Stampa Associata (a.k.a. ANSA), an Italian news Agency in Rome. From June 2002 to January 2004, worked for the Associated Press in Rome. He has been working for ANSA since December 2005. In 2012 he published the photographic book “Poesia escondida, La Habana Cuba” (awarded Second Prize in the Tokyo Foto Awards 2016 Competition and selected for the Photo Book Exhibition at Indian Photo Festival 2017, Hyderabad 21 Sept – 8 Oct 2017) Tempesta Pub.; in 2014 he published the photographic book “Dalla luna al vento (awarded Second prize in the PX3 2016 Competition), Tempesta Pub.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_del_Castillo
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