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Monday, August 18, 2014
LEICA STORE MIAMI: Photographer David Bergman August 20th
Sunday, August 17, 2014
BALSEROS: A Desperate Journey - 20 Years After the Crisis In Cuba
In early August 1994,
tensions between the Castro regime and the United States heated to a new
boiling point. The Cuban president was threatening to unlock his country’s
emigration gates for the first time since the Mariel boatlift, 14 years
earlier. Meanwhile, a man, who was attempting to hijack a ferryboat and flee
the Communist nation, shot and killed a military officer.
The Miami Herald sent me to
cover the disturbances that ensued along El Malecón, Havana’s east coastal
seawall. Now known as the Maleconazo uprising, a protest against government
policies in Cuba.
By the time I entered the
Island the uprising had been quashed.
The next several days I
spent photographing pro-government rallies, scenes around Old Havana and
reconnecting with lost family members.
I was operating in a vacuum,
unaware of what was brewing: Cuban television wasn’t reporting the story, there
was no Internet available and my ability to talk to my editors back in Miami
was minimal.
In the middle of the night I
received a tip that people were leaving on rafts off the coast of Cojimar, east
side of Havana. I hailed a cab, a circa 1950s Chevy. It was pitch black. Still,
I could see the outline of homemade rafts bobbing in the water, some,
overflowing with passengers.
Over the next several days,
I walked into homes of the balseros (rafters) and watched them use their
bloody, swollen hands build their vessels. At daybreak, I would run from one
end of the beach to the other chasing those casting off on their dangerous
voyage. Eventually, I hitched a ride on the back of an old bicycle. The owner,
I figured, could pedal me around Cojimar much faster.
These photographs capture
what I was seeing firsthand: the armada of rickety rafts, the faces of agony
and desperation as many, tried and failed and tried again, to flee their
homeland.
Video of violinist Lizbet Martinez by Jose Iglesias
IN MY OPINION
A revisit to the Cuban Balsero crisis and the people who found freedom in America
Miami Herald columnist Fabiola Santiago recalls the stories of Cuban refugees she met two decades ago in the Guantánamo camps and how they carved out new lives in America.
"Cuban rafters: 20 years after the crisis" is a nine-minute retrospective co-produced by the Miami Herald, el Nuevo Herald and Univision23 on the 1994 mass exodus out of Cuba in that brought some 35,000 people to the United States.
BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO
FSANTIAGO@MIAMIHERALD.COM
When the tiny Guantánamo-bound jet took off from the Fort Lauderdale airport, the door handle fell into my lap.
The handful of journalists on board laughed nervously, eyeing the ripped roof cover and beat-up seats of the Fandango Airlines commuter under contract by the federal government to shuttle journalists to the U.S. Naval base on the eastern end of Cuba.
“I hope this is not an omen,” I remember someone saying.
The unsettling start of our trip that crisp day in 1994 was like an omen, but it was the least of our worries. We were on our way to report on the lingering limbo of the Cuban balseros without a country and enduring wholesale detention in a tent-city metropolis set up by the Clinton Administration in a remote no-man’s land.
It had already been an extraordinary year.
That summer, furious at unprecedented protests and chants of “Freedom!” rising from people gathered at the seafront Malecón in Havana, Cuban leader Fidel Castro threatened to unleash another exodus — and he made good on it, allowing people to leave the island by whatever means. READ MORE HERE
Sunday, August 10, 2014
CALL FOR ENTRIES: Miami Photo Salon
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Friday, August 8, 2014
Schedule for BEST OF PHOTOJOURNALISM FESTIVAL August 8, 9 & 10
Palm Beach Photographic Centre Presents
The National Press Photographers Association's
BEST of PHOTOJOURNALISM 2014 CONTEST
Award Show + Education FESTIVAL
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
DAY ONE: Friday, AUGUST 8, 2014 • CELEBRATE
17h – 19h: 2014 Best in Photojournalism
(BoP) 2014 Contest 'Best in Show’ Opening:
Palm Beach Photographic Centre (PBPC) Museum • 415
Clematis St., West Palm Beach, FL 33401
19:30h – 22h: BoP ‘14 Awards Show • Event Sponsored by Think Tank Photo
Lake Pavilion and Terrace, •101 South Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach
DAY TWO: Saturday, AUGUST 9, 2014 • INSPIRE + ILLUMINATE
A full day of education & sharing and followed by an evening
of community!
8:30 – 9:30h:
'Best in Show' Breakfast, PBPC Museum
EDUCATION 10-18h: City Hall Chambers & Flagler Gallery • 401 Clematis Street, adjacent to PBPC
10 – 11h: Session #1: ILLUMINATE
Sean Proctor, Niko Koppel, Joshua Maranhas, Tom Rapp and Moderated by James K. Colton
11:15 – 12:15h: Session#2: ENLIGHTEN
Chang W. Lee, Nicole Frugé, James Gehrz, Aaron Kurtz and Moderated by James K. Colton
12:30 – 13:30h: Session #3: CHANGE
Andy Buck, Michael Driver, Enrico Meyer and Corky Scholl and Moderated by Bethany Swain
13:30 – 14:45h: Lunch Break
14:45 – 16:15h: Session #4: HOME - "Bringing the Story Home”
Jonathan Malat, Al Diaz and Michael Laughlin
and Moderated by Peter Cross
16:30 – 18h: Session #5: INSPIRE
Patrick Smith, Scott Mc Kiernan, John Tlumacki and Moderated by James K. Colton
19 – 20h: Buffet and Beer Provided by DOUBLEtruck
Magazine, PBPC Studio, 2nd Floor
20 – 22h: BoP ’14 • STATE OF THE INDUSTRY TOWN HALL
Palm Beach Photographic Centre Studio • 415 Clematis St., West Palm
Beach, 2nd Floor
NPPA Board of Directors and Moderated by Scott Mc Kiernan (NPPA Vice President)
DAY THREE: Sunday, AUGUST 10, 2014 •
PRESENTATION
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM : ART of The Portfolio
Come Brunch, with NPPA and ASMP in a co-hosted FREE Biz Event
WHOM: World Famous Picture Editors:
Jimmy Colton and Scott Mc Kiernan, will be joined by other top editors.
Also Top TV people such as Bob Gould and Merry Murray and NGO superstar
Ben Rusnak
WHAT: to give a fast paced
primer on Best Presentation Practices + FREE review of attendees portfolios.
WHY: Get best business
practices and tips from those who hire photographers for both still and motion
work.
WHERE: Palm Beach Photographic Centre (PBPC) Studio (2nd
Floor) • 415 Clematis St., West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
LEICA LOUNGE with Patrick Farrell August 7, 2014
Leica Lounge with Photographer Patrick Farrell | Thurs, August 7, 2014 | 7pm - 8:30pm
Free Event
Leica Lounge is a lecture series hosted by Leica Store Miami which features presentations by local professional photographers. Held monthly, these free events are designed to create and inspire the local photography community through sharing images and exchanging ideas.
Join us in the Leica Lounge on August 7, 2014 with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Patrick Farrell.
Join us in the Leica Lounge on August 7, 2014 with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Patrick Farrell.
About Patrick:
Patrick Farrell has been a photographer at The Miami Herald since 1987. He is the recipient of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his photographs of the devastation in Haiti caused by a particularly brutal hurricane season.
Farrell has documented three decades of major news events, both locally and abroad, including the 1989 race riots in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood; political and civil unrest in Haiti during the 1994 military rule of that country; the 1999 earthquake in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre; childhood poverty in the Americas; and Hurricane Andrew’s 1992 path of destruction in South Florida, for which he and the entire Miami Herald staff won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
He was one of 10 journalists from around the world awarded Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships in 2010 from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. The fellowships are for mid-career journalists seeking to deepen their coverage of violence and traumatic events.
Farrell has won numerous awards for his coverage of Haiti, including the first place 2009 National Headliner Award for Photo Essay, two first place awards in 2008 from Pictures of the Year International, and a Feature Photography Award in 2008 from the Overseas Press Club. Farrell has been named Region Six Photographer of the Year twice (in 1992 and 1993) by the National Press Photographers Association.
Born in Miami (he’s the seventh child in a family of 12 kids), Farrell is a 1977 graduate of Christopher Columbus High School, an all-boys Catholic school in Miami. In 1981, he graduated from the University of Miami with a bachelor’s degree in television and film production. Farrell started his career working at two small South Florida dailies. He is married to Miami-based journalist Jodi Mailander Farrell and they have two young daughters.
To learn more about Patrick and his work, visit his website.
Refreshments will be served.
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