Figures and Buildings in Havana
by René Rodríguez-Ramírez
Havana is one of the literary cities par excellence in Latin America.
What is most surprising is to find places that still exist from the old literature. Combining this with the experience of walking, the dynamics that exist between its inhabitants, its streets and its buildings, is a joy.
It is a conglomerate of figures flowing through the streets that, at times, makes the town seem tiny because of this constant passage of pedestrians.
Old Havana, the meeting point of all these identities, is perennially inhabited, savored and lived in. But there is a way to stop and look directly at the urban garden that is this city.
Through the images I share, I try to narrate the city’s landscape: the contours, the folds, the places that are formed in each area of the city. Its inhabitants are becoming aware of their surroundings through the actions of their bodies in the urban cosmos; within its movements in the metropolis.
This, the symbolic city, has a large number of signs that become significant when read; helping to develop the identity of the citizen. Who is that person who belongs to and exists in this city?
Also, the subject has a certain materiality, a concrete way to get in touch with the city: the body, making Havana a city full of figures and buildings.
Street and Documentary Photographer
San Juan, Puerto Rico
