honorable mention
Eddy Verloes belgium
title
Dreams behind bars
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entry description
As photographer I am a poetic story teller. I want to tell a story with my photos. The serie "Dreams behind bars" belongs to my book "Cuba libre". In 2016 I spent a few weeks in Cuba traveling around the island by taxi. I wanted to see with my own eyes how much ground free initiative (that is: capitalism) had already gained within the socialist model and the extent to which we might expect a Caribbean variant of the Arabian Spring. Westerners tend to label citizens from communist countries as birds born in a cage who think that flying is unnatural. I took this idea of the (bird)cage as the leitmotiv for my Cuba project. I describe the reality of Cuba anno 2016 in a poetic and confrontational manner, with the necessary symbolism. My photos tell a tale, a story in time, but also so much more than that.about the photographer
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