Hyphen
The space between two worlds
di Omar Vega
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Informazioni sul libro
And so it was that I found myself in 2016 traveling by car in Cuba, from Havana to Cienfuegos, then to Camagüey, Las Tunas and Trinidad. Along the way, I witnessed the daily lives of the people through dusty windows and heard stories from them wherever we stopped. I took it all in and searched for myself — my roots — in the faces and lives of strangers.
I photographed the Cubans with a distance between us filled with my fears of not belonging, and my longing to belong. I collected images of them, as if possessing them — these snapshots of their lives — would fill the gap that left me teetering between the two worlds of my hyphenate identity.
It took those years after my first visit, and countless hours spent poring over the photos I made there, to see what was in plain sight. In my photographic menagerie I saw their stories, and mine, and that of us all.
The space I inhabit on that hyphen isn’t a void, it isn’t a confusion of identity. It is my identity.
Funzionalità e dettagli
- Categoria principale: Libri d'arte e fotografia
- Categorie aggiuntive Street photography, Viaggi
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Formato del progetto: Orizzontale standard, 25×20 cm
N° di pagine: 34 -
Isbn
- Copertina rigida rivestita: 9781714792108
- Data di pubblicazione: apr 30, 2020
- Lingua English
- Parole chiave documentary, photography, cuba
Informazioni sull'autore
Omar Vega is an award winning graphic designer and self-taught photographer. Born in Glendale, California into a loud, loving and messy immigrant Cuban family — he now lives in Boston, Massachusetts. As a photographer, it's his love and adoration for the spontaneity of human behavior that forms the foundation for his work. He strives to capture those glimmering, ephemeral moments — the ones that happen so quickly that you just almost miss them. To Omar, photography is catching — in that split-second of the shutters release — the essence of someone or some place. Seeing our sad, messy, beautiful world loud and clear are his primary motivations. His professional life has taken him far and wide, from Hong Kong to Boston, on a path that looks like this: MIAMI HERALD > THE HARTFORD COURANT > ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION > WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA > ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION > GANNETT DESIGN STUDIO > THE BOSTON GLOBE