Back to Cuba

• Photographer
  Sonia Costa
• Photo Date
  April 2022

Twenty years after my first trip,I traveled to Cuba to document the situation due to Covid-19.Over 90% of population had been vaccinated and the restrictionswerestillverystrong.Nevertheless,thecountry,whose primary activity derives from tourism, had thrown its precarious economy into a desperate phase.The crisis hit worse due to Russia Ukraine war with the lack of wheat.Years ago I could glimpse a veil of hope in their faces,now in their eyes,I perceived a veil of resignation and sadness.Only students,completely financed by theState, seemed tolook at the world with confidence.Cuba,Spring2022

Born in Northeast Italy and based between Italy and France, she graduated in Geography at La Sapienza University in Rome. Since the 1990s, she has promoted sustainable, low-impact tourism across the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and remote corners of the world. A freelance documentary and street photographer, she focuses on ordinary lives,cultural stories and contemporary issues drawn to places far from the spotlight. Awarded in several international contests,her imagines have been published in magazines and books and she exhibited her work in Italy, USA, Spain, Greece and Japan.