BETWEEN THE WORLDS – this is a photo project that I started in 2019 in Cuba.
This Caribbean island, known as the pearl of the Antilles, is for me a place where two worlds collide – where time has stopped on one side, yet through a slightly open door, new ones are trying to break in.
Cuba is a space of paradoxes, full of beauty and contradictions. It is a country where revolutionary ideals still echo in the streets, but are constantly confronted with the everyday struggles of contemporary life. The utopian dream clashes with the pragmatic need to survive; the grand narrative of history intertwines with the intimate rhythms of ordinary existence.
What fascinates me most is the fragile moment of transition, the fleeting instant when one world slides into another. The old and the new, the remembered and the anticipated, the idealized and the real – all coexist in an uneasy harmony, suspended in a state of becoming.
I deliberately chose black and white analog photography. This choice is not only aesthetic, but symbolic – a way to underline the starkness of the political and economic situation, the contrasts that shape the Cuban landscape, and the dualities that define the human condition. Stripped of color, the images reveal the raw essence of life: the shadows of history, the brightness of hope, and the unresolved tension between them.
Ultimately, Between the Worlds is not only about Cuba, but also about the universal experience of living at the threshold – in the space where past and future, dreams and reality, tradition and change meet and collide.