Photography: Catherine Losing and Anna Lomax celebrate Cuban shop windows

Date
13 February 2014

Cuba – and Havana in particular – is one of those places that immediately conjures up certain visual connotations; brightly coloured walls, slightly battered classic American cars, cigar-toting dandies. But there’s another site of the Caribbean island – the mundane manifestations of its decades as a committed Communist state.

Bereft of the trappings of capitalist consumerism, the shop windows display a rather sad selection of goods; the cheap, the dull and the practical. Photographer Catherine Losing and set deigner Anna Lomax have taken this idea and photographed these objects – plastic chairs, toilet rolls, fans and the like – in the trendy visual vernacular found in the product shoots of countless glossy magazines.

The results are tremendous images and a thought-provoking project to boot.

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Catherine Losing/Anna Lomax: Cuban Shop Windows

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Catherine Losing/Anna Lomax: Cuban Shop Windows

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Catherine Losing/Anna Lomax: Cuban Shop Windows

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Catherine Losing/Anna Lomax: Cuban Shop Windows

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Catherine Losing/Anna Lomax: Cuban Shop Windows

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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