4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Matthew Gore from Wellington, New Zealand. |
0:03.1 | Welcome to the Candid Frame. |
0:12.4 | For those of us who are blessed enough to travel the world, you have likely visited a place that you've fallen in love with. |
0:20.4 | It's a part of the world that provides you an experience so unique, so special, that no other |
0:26.7 | place can even compare. |
0:29.3 | And if you're very lucky, you may have had the chance to visit that location repeatedly |
0:35.3 | and enjoyed it in an even more intimate and personal way. |
0:39.8 | Ernesto Bazan had just such an experience when he first visited Cuba, but the difference was it |
0:46.9 | became the place that he called home. For him, Cuba was a unique country that not only reminded |
0:53.4 | him of his native Sicily decades before, |
0:56.9 | it also became the inspiration for his life's work, which has resulted in three books on a country |
1:03.3 | that welcomed him, forced him out, and later welcomed him again. |
1:07.6 | I went to Havana in November of 92, and I was shocked, because as I told you, before, |
1:16.5 | I felt like I was in Palermo, but not the Palermo of the 1960s, in the Palermo of the |
1:22.9 | 1940s, because of the time warp that the island find itself in even now. |
1:28.3 | So I was like in a place that I'd never been before. |
1:32.3 | I mean, I travel all across Asia, Africa, you know, you name it, South America. |
1:39.3 | But you know, Cuba was unique. |
1:42.3 | While many say that life as a photographer is a dream of theirs, |
1:47.4 | Ernesto can claim that his inspiration to become a photographer came from an actual dream. |
1:54.0 | As a teenager, he awoke one morning with the idea clearly burned into his mind, |
2:00.0 | and it changed his life forever. |
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