A Photographic Immersion in Havana - Roy Essary MPAGB
Gabrielle Barnard   —   Edited 22-Apr-24 at 14:14

Another busy night at the Club with the members very keen to see the architecture, faded grandeur, glorious colours and of course, those classic american cars of Havana.  Roy shared many anecdotes about the people he captured, the discussions he had and the reactions he encountered in his street photography.  Roy is a photographer who really likes people and street photography comes to him so easily and naturally.  One image sticks with my mind in particular - two men in the street, looking menacingly in Roy's direction as he took their photo.  I thought - was this where Roy did not have such a good day?  The next image gave me the answer - one man was smiling and clearly engaged in telling Roy a story.  Then the next image - the badly injured hand of the other man.  On seeing this, Roy returned to his hotel to fetch his Savlon cream, which he happily gave the man to help his hand heal.  The talk was peppered with these little cameo's and all the more interesting for that.  Roy's images were everything we could have wished for and left us feeling we had visited Havana for the evening.  See more of Roy's images here.