Cuba: Fotos No Vistas Desde 1959

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Lithuanian Photographer Captures “Unseen Cuba”

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Castrismo: La miseria en los campos cubanos - Ensayo fotografico

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Las fotografías de la serie Campo Adentro fueron tomadas en los hogares de los agricultores en un barrio en el Valle de Viñales. Este acceso al mundo privado de los campesinos no podría haber sido posible sin una relación previa entre los sujetos y el fotógrafo. Creo que estas fotografías han nacido de una conexión visceral y emocional con su realidad.

Fotografías y texto por Susan S. Bank

Tía (María) y Chichi en el espejo

Tía jugando a la pelota

Muchacho atado con cuerda

Chino y su hija

Cosechando tabaco

Pipo y Chichi

Manuel (Toti) en el caballo

Guillermo y su familia en la cocina

Arisleidy planchando su falda

Boy en pelea de gallos

Pavos en la sala

El Medico y Chengo

Paraguas en el caminito

Cargando un cerdo

Ana en el tanque de agua

Guillermo y sobrina

Niños en el carrito de bueyes

Martha en la puerta

Negro colgado de soga

Cosecha de Caña de Azúcar

Guillermo en capa de lluvia

Manos en la red

Ana y su familia en la cocinita

Niños en campos de tabaco

Una cámara a 100 mil millones de fotogramas por segundo permite “ver” la luz desplazándose

Microsiervos

El vídeo muestra una haz de luz rebotando en un espejo. Está grabada con una cámara que capta, sin necesidad de flash ni luces estroboscópicas, 100.000 millones de fotogramas por segundo. En Motherboard, The Fastest Camera Ever Created Will Be Used to Study Invisibility Cloaks, «puedes ver la luz moviéndose y cómo pasa a través y alrededor de los objetos».

La cámara utiliza tecnología de las cámaras de barrido cuyo sensor se desplaza lateralmente a gran velocidad. En esta variante denominada CUP (Compressed Ultrafast Photography) la lente capta los fotones y los envía a través de un tubo hasta una superficie del tamaño de una moneda recubierta con un millón de microespejos. El proceso descompone los fotones que forman la luz en electrones que son recogidos según llegan a un sensor CCD: World's fastest 2D camera can capture 100 billion frames per second.

Esta tecnología tiene numerosas aplicaciones en ciencia, incluyendo medicina, y tecnología, incluyendo el desarrollo de capas de invisibilidad o de «ocultación óptica, en los que la luz se curva o se deforma en torno a los objetos en lugar de pasar a través de ellos.»

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Cuba's rafters 20 years on: Photographer catches up with emigrants who fled the Communist island two decades ago to find success in America

Daily Mail Online

Two decades since Cuba lifted restrictions on rafters and opened the flood gates for anyone who wanted to leave the communist-led island, Reuters photographer Enrique de la Osa photographs some of those who made the journey. 

Some 31,000 Cubans were detained at sea by U.S. ships in the summer of 1994 in one of the biggest mass departures of Cuban rafters that changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and reshaped U.S.-Cuba relations.

It also reshaped the lives of the Cuban rafters. Many have gone on to gain success beyond not just what could have been in Cuba, but also beyond what some Americans born into more privileged lives have accomplished.

de la Osa's subjects include an Emmy winner, a Democratic political operative, a mechanic, hairstylist and more. It's a fitting exercise since crossings from Cuba are at a 5-year high.

Perhaps by looking at what the rafters of 1994 became, Americans might rethink how they perceive these daredevil immigrants.

Making something of themselves: Former Cuban rafter Luis Soler, 53, poses with the two Emmy awards he won as creative director at the Univision TV network, in Miami, Soler said he spent five days adrift with other migrants in 1994 before being picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard

Success story: Former Cuban rafter Tomas Curbelo, 51, poses in the headquarters of his electrical contracting company in Miami, September 18, 2014. Curbelo said he was jailed in Cuba for being a member of the opposition Democratic Solidarity Party

Built a better future: Gricel Gonzalez, 37, poses at the campaign headquarters of Democratic candidate for the governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, where she works as a communications director in Miami. Gonzalez was 16 when she boarded a boat in Cuba with her sister, mother and stepfather to try and reach the Guantanamo Base during the 1994 Cuban Exodus. She said that at night they heard a man crying for help for a pregnant woman, but they never saw them

Inspiring: Former Cuban rafter Sergio Lastres, 49, poses at an exhibition of his work based on the 1994 Cuban raft exodus in Miami, September 19, 2014. Lastres and his wife were among 15 migrants rescued when their raft filled with water in 1994. They were taken to Guantanamo Base where he painted his first work about rafters, he said

Studied: Faustino Jose, 60, poses in his jewelery store in Miami. Faustino, who was an industrial engineer in Cuba, said he studied all of Thor Heyerdahl's books about rafting before building his own and leaving Cuba in 1994

Dangerous: Rafter Pedro Brea, 50, poses while working as a municipal garbage collector in Miami. Brea said he spent three days clinging to a sinking raft in the middle of a storm when a U.S. Navy frigate picked him up from the sea in 1994

Taking off: Carlos Hernandez, 45, poses in his workshop in Miami. Hernandez said he was a youth baseball star in Cuba when he decided to climb into a catamaran in 1994 and head for the U.S. after Cuba lifted restrictions on rafters in 1994, opening the flood gates for anyone who wanted to leave the communist-led island

Caution to the wind: Jose Ramon Velazquez, 60, poses in one of his optical stores in Miami. Velazquez said he was a radiologist when he decided to climb into a makeshift boat with 22 other migrants in 1994

Nightmare: Former Cuban rafter Moraima Alfonso, 51, poses in the America TV dressing room where she works as a makeup artist in Miami. She spent ten days at sea and was suffering hallucinations when she was picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1994

Rafter Hanoi Lopez, 39, poses in the yard where he works as mechanic at a public school bus company in Miami, September 15, 2014. Some 31,000 Cubans were detained at sea by U.S. ships that summer in the largest exodus since the 1980 Mariel boatlift, which brought 120,000 Cubans to Miami. The 1994 crisis led to a major shift in U.S.-Cuba policy and an accord under which Washington agreed to grant visas to 20,000 Cuban migrants a year. Rafters have kept coming in smaller numbers, though these days they make few political or media waves

Twenty years on: People put the finishing touches to a makeshift boat on a rooftop before lowering it onto a truck and launching it into the Straits of Florida towards the U.S., on the last day of the 1994 Cuban raft exodus in Havana, in this September 13, 1994

Hopeful: A makeshift boat is lowered from a roof where it was constructed by would-be emigrants, as they take it to launch into the Straits of Florida towards the U.S., on the last day of the 1994 Cuban raft exodus in Havana

Big day: A man gestures as a makeshift boat filled with truck inner tubes is lowered from a roof where it was constructed by would-be emigrants, as they take it to launch into the Straits of Florida towards the U.S.

Cubans watch as a makeshift boat is carried by would-be emigrants through the city to launch into the Straits of Florida towards the U.S., on the last day of the 1994 Cuban raft exodus in Havana, in this September 13, 1994 file photo

IN 1994, between Aug. 12 and Sept. 13, some 31,000 Cubans were detained at sea by U.S. ships. It was the largest exodus since the 1980 Mariel boatlift that brought 120,000 Cubans to Miami

People prepare to launch a makeshift boat into the Straits of Florida towards the U.S. Since 1995, more than 600,000 Cubans have emigrated to the United States, the largest flow since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution

Shoving off: The 1994 crisis led to a major shift in U.S.-Cuba policy and an accord under which Washington agreed to grant visas to 20,000 Cuban migrants a year

Journey: Rafters have kept coming in smaller numbers, though these days they make few political or media waves. Two decades since Cuba lifted restrictions on rafters and opened the flood gates for anyone who wanted to leave the communist-led island, Reuters photographer Enrique de la Osa photographs some of those who made the journey

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2830675/Cuba-s-rafters-20-years-Photographer-catches-emigrants-fled-Communist-island-two-decades-ago-success-America.html#ixzz3InkkvXIX

Famous Canadian war photo brings back memories

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This incredible photograph from the Second World War, known as Wait for me, Daddy, has prompted a monument set to debut Saturday.

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