Artist Profile: Helena Kubicka de Braganca

Helena Kubicka de Braganca, a photographer from NYC, launched her new photography book last month. "I am Cuban" is an amazing documentation of artists and people from Cuba. She spent a few years traveling to and from Cuba and spent countless hours preparing the images. Take a look at some of her work.

"Eight years after seeing "I am Cuba" and armed with a Leica camera, Helena visited Cuba to photograph local hip hop artists who were profiled in the documentary "East of Havana".  Helena was captivated byCuba, the people she met there, and the relative undocumented life of ordinary Cuban citizens.  On her second trip she spent over two months traveling, meeting artists, musicians, prostitutes, farmers, and revolutionaries.  Eventually through the network of people she cultivated, she was able to penetrate deeper into the lives of her subjects than she could have ever imagined.  Helena believes that her photographs exude the trust and intimacy that she built with her subjects and that they express through poetic colors the mysterious lives and struggles of Cubans today.  Helena is currently compiling photographs for a book project in collaboration with Cuban writer Pedro Juan Gutierrez"


http://www.helenaimage.com/

Helena