The Cubans
by Jay Seldin
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Pub Date Nov 01 2015 | Archive Date Feb 12 2016
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Full of extraordinary beauty and survival, Jay Seldin’s The Cubans [Backyard Hammock Publishing, November 2015] paints an intimate view of everyday life in Cuba, an island where time has been standing still. Breathtaking images from the streets and inside of homes, schools, cafes, dance halls, and more, offer readers an up-close and personal look at a culture and locale we’ve been unable to explore—until now.
Seldin has been photographing Cuba since 2008, leading sold-out photography tours centered on a “People to People” cultural exchange and has built relationships with many Cuban families over the years. As a professional travel photographer, Seldin explains, “The photographs in The Cubans reveal Cubans as they are, far beyond the clichés and American 50’s cars. The images bring a strong sense of reality and character to the people I photograph. It’s about families and cultures, spirit and grace, and how they must learn to be creative and inventive just to survive. I don’t intend just to photograph a person, but to make that person important and empowered. It’s true, I am a teller of tales, and my photographs are my words that tell the story of the people, the challenges, the love and the hope that I see through my lens.”
Seldin has been photographing Cuba since 2008, leading sold-out photography tours centered on a “People to People” cultural exchange and has built relationships with many Cuban families over the years. As a professional travel photographer, Seldin explains, “The photographs in The Cubans reveal Cubans as they are, far beyond the clichés and American 50’s cars. The images bring a strong sense of reality and character to the people I photograph. It’s about families and cultures, spirit and grace, and how they must learn to be creative and inventive just to survive. I don’t intend just to photograph a person, but to make that person important and empowered. It’s true, I am a teller of tales, and my photographs are my words that tell the story of the people, the challenges, the love and the hope that I see through my lens.”
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Advance Praise
"Jay Seldin’s multi-layered photographs of Cuba give an intimate view of everyday life on the island; they are both works of art but also a vicarious journey for the viewer. They reveal Cubans as they are, far beyond the clichés and poses. His work involves great patience. He goes beyond the stereotypical scene many photographers would capture, connecting with the people, listening to their stories and creating the rapport that is so palpable in his work.
The omnipresent symbols of Cuba are here. In the backgrounds are slogans and figures from the Revolution, some all but disregarded by the younger generation. Here too is the ever-present Cuban flag, an identity symbol battered but not broken. Yet the foregrounds reveal another Cuba, layered on top. The photographs capture the two Cubas, old and new, as they inevitably collide.
Reminiscent of Robert Frank in more ways than simply the title, The Cubans is a beautiful, bittersweet vignette of my island and its people."
– Sergio Leyva Seiglie - Cuban Social Documentary Photographer
The omnipresent symbols of Cuba are here. In the backgrounds are slogans and figures from the Revolution, some all but disregarded by the younger generation. Here too is the ever-present Cuban flag, an identity symbol battered but not broken. Yet the foregrounds reveal another Cuba, layered on top. The photographs capture the two Cubas, old and new, as they inevitably collide.
Reminiscent of Robert Frank in more ways than simply the title, The Cubans is a beautiful, bittersweet vignette of my island and its people."
– Sergio Leyva Seiglie - Cuban Social Documentary Photographer
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About the author:
Jay Seldin is a professional photographer, teacher, and adventurer with a talent for social documentary. In addition to studying with Ansel Adams and George Tice, he has over thirty years experience as a professional exhibiting photographer and teacher of photography in high school and colleges in the NYC area. Canson-Infinity digital papers sponsor Seldin as a Canson Artist and Digital Printmaking expert.
Seldin is the principal photographer at DigitalEdge Photography Studios in Montclair, NJ and also owns and operates CPE Photo Workshops LLC, an international photography workshop company. His awards and honors include Canson Infinity Artist International program, 2010 Present, Artist-in-Residence at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, 2009-2012, Artist-in-Residence at the Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ 2006-2011, Fellowship award from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, 2000-2006, Adobe PhotoShop Photo Competition, Winner 2007, Summer Artist Residence Fellowship Grant, Provincetown Fine Arts Center- 2001, and Distinguished Educators Award from Rochester Institute of Technology 2003.
Jay Seldin is a professional photographer, teacher, and adventurer with a talent for social documentary. In addition to studying with Ansel Adams and George Tice, he has over thirty years experience as a professional exhibiting photographer and teacher of photography in high school and colleges in the NYC area. Canson-Infinity digital papers sponsor Seldin as a Canson Artist and Digital Printmaking expert.
Seldin is the principal photographer at DigitalEdge Photography Studios in Montclair, NJ and also owns and operates CPE Photo Workshops LLC, an international photography workshop company. His awards and honors include Canson Infinity Artist International program, 2010 Present, Artist-in-Residence at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, 2009-2012, Artist-in-Residence at the Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ 2006-2011, Fellowship award from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, 2000-2006, Adobe PhotoShop Photo Competition, Winner 2007, Summer Artist Residence Fellowship Grant, Provincetown Fine Arts Center- 2001, and Distinguished Educators Award from Rochester Institute of Technology 2003.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780692497784 |
| PRICE | $65.00 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
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Cuba is right next door to the US but most Americans know almost nothing about it
Cuba was once very close to America but Castro's revolution changed all that in the ensuing decades the embargo on Cuba has caused time there to almost stand still Stifling under the oppression of a regime whose sole goal was to seize power but who then had no real idea of what to do with it and mostly cut off from the rest of the world the Cuban people have continued to thrive as best they could
This book is a beautiful photo essay on the everyday lives of Cubans devoid of politics or rhetoric it showcases a people who have not lost their spirit despite all they have had too endure
