CUBA | Sunday, 13 January 2013 | Views [349] | View Smaller Image
Dealing between the novelty and the ancient, the “150 years” camera with its sickly and geary sound, whose owner is the well known “Albert, the camera man”, keeps photographing walkers in “La Habana Vieja” (Habana’s Old District) after four generations of usage. “My grand- grand father built it from nothing, with the fresh enthusiasm of a self-taught scientist and the sadly creativity of a man who grew up in the Cuban poverty way. I learned from my grandfather, I remember him telling me since I was a 7 year old: take a photo and ask for a tip, ask for a tip”. Alberto has two sons of 16 and 18 years, none of them wants to learn from his dad how to use the “150 years” camera; one wants to become a doctor and the other a cosmonaut, they want to make money, he exclaims. “I can’t force them to do anything related to this camera; they don’t want to become photographers, my craft is despised by them because it is not modern, after I die this camera will die also”.
