{"id":13668,"date":"2019-02-08T13:34:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T21:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/?p=13668"},"modified":"2019-02-16T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T20:01:42","slug":"havana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/havana\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a tourist, a voyeur, a photographer and at times uneasy in that role.<\/p>\n<p>A visit to Cuba is a surreal overlap of eras. Before communism Havana was an art deco playground for those who could afford it. In 1959 most of the rich fled and the needy moved in; it was a cultural revolution. The ornamented 19th-century buildings fell into decay. Today the detailed concrete is stained and cracking, plaster falls from ceilings, windows are replaced with cardboard. It is an era of make do: it is a photographer\u2019s paradise.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba is poor but resourceful, proud, educated and talented. The bones of these architectural gems are slowly being restored \u2026 bit by bit. I felt a sense of guilt being on the outside looking in seeing beautiful black and white composition, when those within the walls no doubt did not had the same privilege.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,662,660,184,451],"tags":[244,736,734,423,735],"class_list":["post-13668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","category-architecture","category-black-and-white","category-weddings-3","category-image-2","tag-architecture","tag-blackandwhitephotography","tag-cuba","tag-travel","tag-travelcuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13708,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions\/13708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyangermeyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}