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For six years now, Hector Garrido has filled his camera with the entire Cuban light. Specializing in photography of science and nature, the Spanish photographer recently showed at the Centre for Development of Visual Arts the exhibition Cuba Iluminada.
The exhibition, which transcends the habanera display in an eponymous book by the Editorial Rueda, Madrid, brought to the fore 250 Cubans that have placed the island under the spotlight of international attention due to their contributions in art, culture, sport .
Garrido said that the project "is never closed," and has set eyes on continuing his inquiries towards the face of a special island from the calm portrait of its people. From his pictures, the world can approach dancers as Alicia Alonso, Viengsay Valdes and Carlos Acosta, the writer Leonardo Padura, actors Vladimir Cruz and Jorge Perugorría and historian of Havana, Eusebio Leal.
Cuba Iluminda leaves, among others, full statues of the world record high jumper Javier Sotomayor, the filmmaker Fernando Perez and musicians like Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes, Chucho Valdes and Juan Formell.
Garrido says that arrive in Havana was like feeling at home, having returned, instead of arriving first. In Cuba he has not only got "one of the most important works" of his career, but found his current wife, actress Laura de la Uz.
He sees Havana as the "character" on which he turns the entire exhibition, but he leans and peeks into "nooks and people" located in other beautiful and eloquent points such as Baracoa, Matanzas, Gibara and Pinar del Río.
Borrowing the "face and feelings" of the images he framed, this photographer has formed part of the current canvas exhibited in Cuba and elsewhere. The exhibition will be presented in November at the Huelva Film Festival, and could later arouse amazement in the cosmopolitan cities of Paris and Madrid.