Havana Cuba Street Scene | Color Street Photography
Everyday Life Against the Weathered Architecture of Havana
This is the Havana I am always looking for.
An old building fills almost the entire frame, its once-elegant facade worn down by decades of heat, weather and repair. Tall windows have been patched with mismatched pieces of wood, paint has faded into layers of yellow and green, and laundry hangs openly across the upper floor. Then, at precisely the right moment, a man on a bicycle entered the scene.
That small figure changed the photograph for me.
His red shirt immediately separates him from the muted colors of the building, while the bicycle gives movement to an otherwise completely static facade. He is dwarfed by the architecture behind him, yet my eye goes directly to him. Without the cyclist, I would have a photograph about an aging Havana building. With him, it becomes a photograph about life continuing around it.
I particularly like the contrast between the grandeur the building must once have possessed and the way it is being lived in now. Ornamental columns and decorative details remain, but so do crumbling plaster, boarded windows, exposed masonry and improvised repairs. Laundry hanging above the street makes the building feel inhabited rather than abandoned.
These are the scenes that keep drawing me back to street photography. I can find the location and recognize the possibilities, but I can't manufacture the moment.
The architecture gave me the setting. Havana gave me the color and texture. The cyclist gave me the photograph.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2017
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