BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI In the fall of 1960, Earnest Hemingway and his long-time friend A.E. Hotchner drove frantically to Ketchum, Idaho without taking the time to stop for a drink. For those familiar with the Nobel Prize winning writer’s reputation…
Meet the neo-hippie communist bringing body art to Cuba—where tattooing is still illegal
BY: CAROLINE ROLF While he might look like your everyday hipster, Che Alejandro Pando Napoles, or Che for short, would describe himself as more of a “neo-hippie communist.” Despite having to constantly dodge government closures of his shop by…
Cuba might just be the first country in the world to completely eliminate HIV/AIDS
BY: DAVID LAO Ah Cuba, a beach-infested island filled with friendly people and lively faces that is just a stones-skip away from the tip of Florida. As one of the resort-oriented countries resting along the Caribbean belt, the island is…
These before and after photos of sexual reassignment give a voice to transgendered in Cuba.
For Reassign, Claudia Gonzales documents the complex journey travelled by transgendered people living in Cuba. In the first photo you will see the phase preceding the gender reassignment process, and in the other, following the surgery. These photos are made…