'Havana Buzz' was shot in 2015 in Havana, Cuba. Once a majestic and cosmopolitan city at the heart of the Spanish colonial empire, then a playground for rich and powerful Americans in the first half of the 20th century, since the late 1950s Havana has been the capital of one of the last remaining socialist regimes in the world. This historical U-turn is at the core of Havana’s unique identity. The anti-urban character of Cuba’s communist rule, and the inflexible embargo imposed by the United States cast a paralyzing spell on the lavish metropolis, freezing it in time. 'Havana Buzz' explores Cuba’s capital at this time of long-awaited historical transition. Here caught in fleeting glimpses from its public buses, Havana’s features are dispassionately laid bare, and the truth is revealed beyond the myth. Behind the romantic languidness of urban decay, the daily struggles for survival of an impoverished but resourceful population are displayed against a backdrop of anachronistic propaganda billboards, decrepit housing estates, crumbling infrastructures, and a lush tropical nature that reclaims its territory after human neglect. Yet signs of change are visible throughout the city, and the new appears to seep relentlessly through the cracks of the past, creating a unique blend of antique and nouveau, nostalgia and hope, disillusionment and elation.

Alessandro Cosmelli nasce a Livorno nel 1972. Dopo la laurea in Geologia all’Università di Pisa, si dedica alla fotografia, avviando, nel 2001, la carriera foto-giornalistica che lo porterà a trasferirsi a New York, dove vive e lavora dal 2006. Nel 2005 intraprende una lunga indagine fotografica sull’estrema desta italiana, realizzando un ritratto antropologico del gruppo neo-fascista Casapound, raccolto successivamente in Oltrenero, un volume edito da Contrasto e premiato tra i migliori dieci libri fotografici del 2009 dal Pictures Of the Year International (POYi). Le sue immagini sono state esibite in ambito internazionale e pubblicate estensivamente dalle principali testate e piattaforme multimediali, televisive e web, ricevendo riconoscimenti da istituzioni come Pictures Of the Year International, Photo España Award for Human Values, Prix de la Photographie Paris. Alessandro Cosmelli, insieme all’artista Gaia Light, è l’ideatore di The Buzz Project, un progetto dedicato all’identità – e all’Umanità- della metropoli contemporanea, inaugurato nel 2012.

Gaialight (o Gaia Light, per la sua produzione video e fotografica) nasce a Roma da madre newyorkese e padre palermitano. Dal 2006 vive e lavora tra New York e Miami. Dopo gli studi classici e una laurea in Giurisprudenza all’Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, si dedica esclusivamente alla ricerca artistica, trasferendo il forte interesse per la legalità su terreni d’indagine visiva, di matrice antropologica e in relazione costante con aspetti controversi della società contemporanea. Artista visuale e fotografa documentaria, nel 2012 pubblica, insieme al fotografo Alessandro Cosmelli, il libro fotografico Brooklyn Buzz, primo capitolo di The Buzz Project, edito da Damiani. Nel 2010 fonda la Light TV, piattaforma multimediale di sperimentazione video e Televisione Indipendente su Youtube.

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