"El Periodo Especial"
Cuban Photographs by Ernesto Bazan
January 14 - May 26, 2000











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In his images of present-day Cuba—rocked by Soviet collapse, social change, and material hardship—Ernesto Bazan portrays both the feeling of hopelessness and the dignity and inner strength of Cubans living through the island's historic transformation.

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