The project "Special Period", by photographer Juan Carlos Alom, reconstructs, from a very personal point of view, that tremendously complex historical period for Cuban society that followed the collapse of the Socialist Camp.

 

Far from simplification, the series focuses on the men and women who lived in a country in crisis -many of them his friends-, and who knew how to build a world of their own beyond scarcity. Man, here, is not a mere passive spectator, even when he participates in the cogwheel of history. Alom refuses to follow the guidelines of a dramaturgy of tragedy or victimization, and decides to speak the language of the human body and sexuality, of youth and spontaneity, of intimacy and emotional bonds.