2014 / Book / Documentary

Propaganda! Cuba on the wall

  • Photographer
    patrizia dottori

If it were possible (maybe one day ...) to fly from New York to Cuba, the scenario that would be opened would be formally identical but with a content completely opposite: Propaganda and Advertising! Here's what you would find in any street, alley or house Cuban propaganda aimed at "(...) spread ideas, concepts, doctrines, political, social between layers increasingly large population (...)". If a city like New York represents all possible worlds, a country like Cuba, says that a better world is possible. Both contain a number of apparent contradictions that make it difficult to determine if all worlds are possible and if it's possible a better world. I pointed out the contradictions of the various cultures that have landed and they live in close contact in one of the world's most fascinating cities, in Cuba , since it was of ideals and values, I have traveled far and wide to understand what did not work. For this reason, I compared the Cuban Constitution with Propaganda, that the essential elements that make up the animus of this country, a unique island intertwined with a fil rouge that connects politics and life, past and present, could help me to find an answer, but also a new solution to the question "a better world is possible?". A work in which light, colors, people and roads come together right and wrong in the human and social rights, today the polar stars for the real change. The sections, or chapter, 'play' on a double meaning: the 'Che', pointed out should be read both in the Italian sense of particle junction that in the sense of the proper name of Ernesto Che Guevara. In each section there are subsections that correspond to the keywords that are found in the articles of the Cuban Constitution (especially the fundamental articles) and that gave birth to the history of the last 50 years in this country. The images of each subsection, ranging from posters to real life, try to suggest to me in the first place, the perception of what "moves" (propaganda, ideals) of written goals (the Constitution), how they lives (everyday life).

Born in Rome and photographer since 1986, working between Rome and Buenos Aires. "I shoot like an artist and I think like a photographer" for this reason I define this photographic genre as "artistic reportage". The projects are born, mostly, discovering what I want to tell and how through my shots: a search between meanings and emotions of reality not immediately recognizable.