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Peter Turnley embraces the world with the eyes. Sensitivity, talent and humanism have accompanied him to capture significant moments in history. Therefore he is considered a poet of the image. With a naked soul and his camera he has walked along the widest and narrowest paths in the destiny of men.
He has left his mark as artist-explorer in over ninety countries. Countless are the faces, the experiences, the lives that have challenged him as a human being and professional. However, this artist has been captivated by Cuba. Since he set foot on the island for the first time in 1989, he has made this country a recurring route. Havana hosts him again: these days Peter Turnley shows the exhibition Moments of the Human Condition at the National Museum of Fine Arts.
This is a retrospective exhibition consisting of 130 photos that reflect the roughness and beauty of everyday life, the divine and the earthly of the reality. It is an invitation to admire a mighty work in content and exquisite in its aesthetic conception.
His presence in Cuba has not been unnoticed, becoming the first American artist to exhibit in Bellas Artes shows the overwhelming power of culture and its fundamental role in the increasingly encouraging exchanges between the US and Cuba.
In Moments of the Human Condition, and particularly in the images of the section «Cuba, the grace of the spirit», we see how the Cubans get caught without hesitation or veils. We see a country, and how its culture and people are shaping the perspectives and thoughts of those who decide to take a foreign land as if it were their own.