HAVANA, Cuba, 21 November 2011 — AU Abroad students and their Cuban contemporaries pose for a group picture during our recent visit to the Advanced Institute of International Relations in Havana. The Institute, known here as the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI) is Cuba’s premier institution for the study of foreign relations between Cuba […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 15 November 2011 — This two-page spread appears in the latest edition of News Photographer Magazine, published by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). It shows Chelsea Crandall, one of my AU Abroad students this semester, at work in Habana Vieja. I’m teaching my “Photojournalism and Social Documentary” class to the AU students, […]
OLD HAVANA, Cuba, 11 November 2011 – Students at a workshop run by the Office of the City Historian learn to replicate centuries-old metal decoration as part of an overall plan to restore the colonial-era city. I documented part of their training while working on a backpack journalism project here in Cuba. (Photo by Bill […]
OLD HAVANA, Cuba, 2 November 2011 – AU Abroad students on a hunt for images take aim at some of the colonial-era buildings and their inhabitants during our class period on Wednesday. Included in the group are three Cubans who have joined the class. Two are photographers employed by the Casa de las Americas where […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 4 November 2011 — We’re on the final work day of a five-day Backpack Documentary Workshop at the Jose Marti International Institute for Journalism. About 25 Cuban students are participating in the event. On the fifth day, we plan to view and critique the mini documentaries they generate. (Photo by Heriberto Gonzalez Brito.)
OLD HAVANA, Cuba, 2 November 2011 — AU Abroad student Cristina Khan eyes a street vendor before making a picture of him and his Che Guevara tattoo. Cristina is one of a handful of AU students taking my Photojournalism and Social Documentary class, the foundation of backpack journalism. (Photo by Bill Gentile.)