For nearly 30 years, Alex Garcia has been traveling to and documenting Cuba — visiting family, leading photography tours and working as a photojournalist. Now that work is being shown in a solo show called 'Enduring Ties: Resilience and Longing in Cuba.'
“I was really propelled to go there for the first time to see them because it was right after the Balseros crisis, where people were basically jumping into the ocean,” Garcia recalled.
“I think the only time that people ever really hear about Cuba is maybe more in a political context,” he said. “The more that we get to know each other as people, the more that we get to know each other as neighbors, I think we’ll have greater intersections of understanding and appreciation.”After his first trip in 1995 Garcia returned as an exchange student, and eventually worked as a photojournalist when the Chicago Tribune opened a Havana bureau.
Garcia’s pictures allow the humanity of his subjects to shine, free of preconceived notions. The show has celebratory moments as big as a fireworks show and as small as the back of a car. And it doesn’t shy away from the harsh conditions many Cubans face — like a once-well off mother and son with little left beyond one another.“Photojournalism is at its best when it tells stories that allows people to understand complex issues in a way that they may not have understood,” Garcia said.
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