HAVANA'S UNDER LAND

Under Land as Ecotone I am drawn to ecotones: places where two distinct environments overlap, and the resulting borderland has an ecology all its own, supporting beings and behaviors found only on an "edge." Havana's Necropolis de Colon is such a place, and as philosopher Michel Foucault commented on cemeteries generally, has an "otherness" about it that can both "fascinate and repel". I've been shooting this project since 2012, when I first met Tati, the guardian of the bones in the oldest crypt in Cemeterio de Colon. I try to capture what happens there between the living and the dead, between public devotion and private mourning, between careful preservation and casual desecration, between Catholicism and military dictatorship... and to share with others the dazzling beauty lying above ground and under land in La Ciudad de Los Muertos.