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Photographer’s

Holiday In Cuba

THE FORBIDDEN ISLAND THROUGH THE LENS

Story Maryanne McGuire and Ellen Federico

Photography by Maryanne McGuire

rom the Jet Blue window it looked like most Carib- bean the plane Havana. It would remain that way until March when
islands, but this island was Cuba, an outlawed destination it would turn hot, humid and buggy. We navigated through the
Ffor Americans until recently. My travelling companion and crowded customs and baggage pickup and exchanged our dollars
fellow photographer and I were living a life-long dream and we for Cuban, jumped in a taxi and headed for our hotel.
were beyond excited -- ten days in Cuba to experience the island
and its people through the lens of our cameras. Old Havana was like diving into an Easter basket of con- fection
colored architecture that mirrors its diverse social and political
It was January and the weather was pleasant as we stepped off past. The Spanish, Greek, Italian, and Moorish colonial-style build-

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