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Ernesto Bazan was born in Palermo in 1959. He lives nowadays in Veracruz, Mexico. Ernesto received his first camera when he was 14 years old and began photographing daily life in his native city and in the rural areas of Sicily. He has had exhibitions in Europe, Latin America and the United States. His photographs have been collected by collectors and museums among which MOMA and ICP in New York, SFMOMA in San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, the South East Museum of Photography in Daytona, the Fondazione Italiana della Fotografia in Turin, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the Musée Rattau in Arles. Bazan has published several books: The Perpetual Past, Passing Through, The First Twenty Years, Island, Molo Nord. From 1992 to 2006, he lived and photographed the island of Cuba documenting the unique time in Cuban history called The Special Period. This body of work has given him the privilege to win some of the world most prestigious photographic awards among them The W. Eugene Smith grant; the Mother Jones Foundation for Photojournalism, the World Press Photo and two fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2008, BazanPhotos Publishing had printed his new book CubaBazan on 14 years of life and photography on the island. The work covers a time span of almost 14 years. He started working on the project in the fall of 1992 and shot the last image in late June of 2006, just before his final departure from the island. BazanCuba has 280 pages and contains 118 images divided in 6 chapters, excerpts from his journal entries, contact sheets and several quotes by different writers and artists. The book BazanCuba is available in two editions: - limited, in a hand-made box with an original stamp, signed and numbered ; - traditional, signed and especialle sealed. BazanCuba can be directly ordered through BazanPhotos Publishing: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Web site : www.bazanphotos.com |