Sweet Thing: A Personal Look At A Photographers Cuban Slavery Heritage Photo Essay

From the remnants of my great-grandparents Cuban home near the sugar plantation that is part of Unescos Slave Route programme where they were once enslaved - to personal artefacts, each piece reconstructs an uncertain past Gathering information on our origins that might help with constructing self-identities could be a beautiful endeavour. Unfortunately, for millions of people worldwide, retracing a past filled with unfinished stories is like trying to nurture a tree whose roots have been severed. I still remember that narrow ribbon of earth winding down from my grandfathers house towards the old Triunvirato plantation the same fields where an enslaved woman called Carlota, who led an uprising in 1843, raised her voice against chains. In the silence of that road, it feels like a place that has been frozen in time