The project of “Havana in the gaps” (between Havana times) Antonia created in the spring of 1996.
German photographer Hjordis Antonia schlösser (Jordis Antonia Schlösser) was born in 1967, lives in Berlin.
She studied sociology and Ethnology at the University of Cologne and photography at the Dortmund under the supervision of Professor Arno Fischer. Work Schlesser received wide recognition and won many awards. It is well-known Berlin photo Agency “Ostkreuz”, cooperating with Geo, National Geographic, Stern and Spiegel.
The project of “Havana in the gaps” (between Havana times) Antonia created in the spring of 1996. It was her second visit to Cuba. The country has changed a lot. The dream of socialism seemed vanished. But the goal of the photographer was not to show hardship and to inflate a sensation. She wanted to capture people with their hopes and fears for the future in a rapidly changing country.
“Easy” said the people on every corner of Havana in those days. It’s hard to live in the quarter, which cut off the electricity and have to burn the last candle, in store for the gods. Not easy when for Breakfast you had sugar water and biscuits left over from yesterday’s small piece of bread, constitutes the daily diet. No paper, no building materials available. Soap has not been seen here for several months. Huge factories are idle for lack of raw materials or spare parts. But life goes on.
