PLAYA GIRON, Cuba, 30 September 2011 — AU Abroad students watch a documentary about the failed U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Six American University students are studying this semester at Casa de las Americas, Cuba’s premier cultural center in Havana. I’m teaching my Photojournalism and Social Documentary class, the foundation for the methodology […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 18 September 2011 — This is the beginning of a very long day hunting images for freelance work here in Cuba. I spotted this fisherman casting lines into Havana Bay, with fishing vessels in the background. I’m in Havana from 22 August through 20 December, teaching a group of AU Abroad students my […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 12 September 2011 — AU Abroad students arrive for another week of classes at Casa de las Americas, Cuba’s premier cultural center. The AU students are taking a total of five classes at Casa, four of them taught by Cuban professors. I am teaching my Photojournalism and Social Documentary class, a stepping stone […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 11 September 2011 — AU Abroad students board a crowded bus to reach a church service in Centro Habana on Sunday 11 September. The AU students are spending fall semester in the Cuban capital where they are studying at Casa de las Americas, this Caribbean nation’s premier cultural center. The students are taking […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 2 September 2011 — AU Aroad student Chelsea Crandall, far left, walks through the Museo de la Revlucion in Centro Havana, Cuba. Crandall is one of six AU students taking part in a semester at Casa de las Americas, Cuba’s premier cultural center. In addition to four courses they are taking from Cuban […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 28 August 2011 — AU Abroad students (l to r) Paul Barrett, Efrain Ramirez and Emmalee June Kinard get ready to board a bus to downtown Havana after arriving Sunday at Havana’s international airport. Paul, Efrain and Emmalee are among six AU Abroad students who will be spending fall semester studying at Cuba’s […]