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Sweet thing: a personal look at a photographer’s Cuban slavery heritage – photo essay
- Photographer Jorge Luis Álvarez Pupo presents 'Sweet Thing' as a multidisciplinary project linking family memory to Cuba’s slavery history.
- The work integrates archival photos with contemporary images from the photographer’s visits to his parents’ birthplaces.
- Memory is treated as an ethical act, with the project insisting on remembering lives too long silenced.
- The essay connects Cuban slave history to the broader narrative of sugar production and colonial violence.
- The piece cites historical figures and sites, linking personal memory to events like uprisings and enslaved people’s experiences.
- The article notes that tens of thousands were affected by the transatlantic slave trade to Cuba.
- The essay emphasizes the fragility of inherited memory amid eroded narratives and missing documents.
- The photographer highlights personal family history, from his grandfather’s home to sugar mill proximities.
- The work situates memory work within a broader cultural and historical conversation about slavery, wars, and the Holocaust.
- The title draws from Nina Simone’s Four Women, used to frame the exploration of origins and memory.
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