CAMAGÜEY.- After the promising results in the past Photographic November in 2018, many of us started hoping to repeat the experience, that has become a time that comprehends inaugurations in the passing of October to December.

It is true that the event, hosted by the Cuban Photographic Library and the National Council of Visual Arts, devotes its efforts this year to the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Havana City. The theme of the expositions in the capital follows that line, but in our city, besides welcoming the exhibits with that subject, it spreads the range to any other matter.

This is why, this time it will count with an attractive set of exhibits and exhibitors. Artists from Cuba, the United States, Australia, Spain and Finland will present us this wonderful experience of photography promoting the defense of the planet and the beauty of its variety in vegetation and wildlife.

Such is the case of the repeater Paul Murray and his colleague in the exposition Antipodes, Joshua Holko. The presentation of the Group of Nature Photography Bioencuadre will also bow to this topic with attractive shots of the nature of our island; Adrián Juan Espinoza, with the exhibit Mantengan encendida una luz (Keep a light on), that set a bridge between his poetic work and the known words of the Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamín; and the Camagüeyan Audrey de Varona with Free fest, where she continues the work related to her love for music and the creation of infinite ways of appreciating the violin as an object tied to her existence.

The sample Tiempos convulsos (Turbulent times), by the artist Josep Vicent Rodríguez, refers to the transition in Spain after the end of Franco’s office, and even more to the way that historical event shook the society in that country to the ground. The other scheduled exhibit is Whispers of the Hay Bales, by an artist that came from very far to share her longing for the ancient Finnish traditions about the reaping of grass for hay, Seija Ulkuniemi highlights the display of haystacks in the field and the party that was the reunion of neighbors in those days of hard, but merry, work.

The Camagüeyan audience can appreciate the great effort around this sessions and the absolute quality and novelty of what it represents. In the current edition we will work with similar budgets for promotion and it will be included the “Passport” system used on last November to stimulate attendance to the inaugurations.

*Curator, specialist of the Provincial Council of Visual Arts in Camagüey.