Calle Ocho: More Street Documentation and Experimentations

In the summer of 1978, as a young teenager, I explored Calle Ocho in Miami with my first 35mm camera and created my first documentary attempt at street photography in an effort to understand the “Cubanization” of areas in Miami, that my family was very much a part of as Cuban immigrants. I returned to this project in 2023. This new work aims to investigate themes of memory, time, immigration and migration from a personal perspective. The work at this point, is taking the form of digital prints that coexist with transfer images from the 1978 negatives, which are scanned and printed with transfer medium on to cotton fiber-based papers. The images provide a sampling of the images made in February of this year.