This year’s edition of Noviembre Fotográfico is dedicated to photographing the real and discovering the invisible. This event was recently inaugurated at the headquarters of the Fototeca de Cuba. It has become a space for exchange between photographers, with the aim of disseminating the various aspects of this artistic manifestation.

The National Council of Plastic Arts (CNAP in Spanish) explained the launch of the event and mentioned some of the activities of the programme, in which other provinces will also participate. The traditional gallery system linked to the project in Havana was also mentioned.

Some of the activities that will take place during the month include workshops, theoretical discussions, exhibition openings and the reception of photographic portfolios.

The inaugural exhibition, Del cielo caen las hojas, by American artist Jenia Fridlyand, was presented at the Fototeca de Cuba. It brings together works created in the largest archipelago of the Antilles between 2017 and 2019.

«While the ostensible theme of the project is the everyday, the emphasis in the editing is on the less familiar, sometimes even the strange, and the sequence, size and layout of the images will be structured around possible parallel narratives that will ultimately point to the same reality,» say the exhibition’s organisers.

Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez