Workshop
Beyond the Frame: Innovative approaches to curatorial and photographic practice in Havana, Cuba

This GCRF-funded photography workshop in Havana, Cuba focuses on the relationship between photography and audio-description. It will bring together British and Cuban experts, researchers and practitioners whose work involves curatorial and photographic practice and will involve reviewing the way we engage with and exhibit images in the gallery space. Dr James Kent and Prof Hannah Thompson will be working collaboratively with representatives from the Universidad de La Habana (UH), the Universidad de las Artes (ISA), the Fototeca de Cuba, and a number of Cuba’s leading photographers (Raúl Cañibano, Arien “Chang” Castán & Leysis Quesada Vera). The broader aim of the project is to design a plan for the delivery of school workshops relating to photography and visual storytelling that would impact positively on the personal and social wellbeing of Cuban school children, socio-economically marginalised groups and disabled people, engaging with key social issues in Cuban society that relate specifically to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (specifically SDG #4 Quality Education).

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