KUTI has lived in Havana for nine years. In her search beyond the city, she reveals unknown realities, hard yet tender images, sceneries that are at times full of light, others, dramatic. She brings moving images, and poignant gazes. With her exhibition "...UNA VEZ" [.ONCE] (Miramar Trade Centre, Havana, April 2006), she made herself known to a public whom she took by surprise not only for the content of her work but also for the original manner in which it was mounted. This year, her second exhibition "ENTRE CALLES" [BETWEEN STREETS] brings us the most beautiful portrayal of Havana and its lights, its local customs, the city's characters, whose roles escape the eyes of the uninitiated viewer.
www.photoproducers.es/kuti

Juliet has worked in journalism, design, photography and design management. Her work has been published and exhibited in England, the US and the Caribbean. During early visits to Cuba she encountered an infuriating dearth of information on Havana in English which promoted her to write Havana - Review of a City (see right). She worked for many years as Head of Design for the Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Office of the City Historian of Havana.

Exquisite, rare photographs and timely, illuminating commentary reveal a rich architectural history. The lucid, intelligent text and superb photographs present the architectural treasures of the entire island.

Caribbean Tourism Organization Awards (Travel Writer of the Year 2005), Rebecca Bruns Award (Outstanding Achievement 2005), Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award ('Best Travel Guidebook' 2006), North American Travel Journalist Association ('Award of Excellence' 2006)

This eagerly awaited new album features one of Cuba's new rising stars, Diana Fuentes.

Beatriz was born in Spain and has been interested in cooking from an early age. She ran cooking classes and a catering business when still a student and then worked at the Alambique Cookery School in Madrid before moving to Cuba. Here she soon developed a keen interest in the local cuisine and culture. She is co-author of From Spain with Olive Oil as well as contributor to numerous cooking magazines. She currently lives in Havana with her 3 children.

Dick Cluster is a writer, translator, and teacher who has been visiting Cuba regularly since 1969 and lived in Havana in the 1990s. He is the co-author of History of Havana (2006), with Havana writer and researcher Rafael Hernández. He has translated Cuban fiction by Raúl Aguiar, Aida Bahr, Mylene Fernández, Pedro de Jesús, Abel Prieto, Antonio José Ponte, Mirta Yáñez and others.
dick.cluster@umb.edu
www.palgrave-usa.com

Robert Polidori is an active photographer based out of New York City. He has published four books of photography, including Havana (2001), Zones of Exclusion Pripyat and Chernobyl (2003), and Metropolis (2004). He has published work in internationally, in such magazines as Vanity Fair, Condé Nest Traveler, Newsweek and Wallpaper. He is the recipient of the World Press Award for Art, 1988, and the Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography, Architecture 1999 and 2000. Polidori was born in Montreal and relocated to New York in the seventies, where he began working for Jonas Mekas at the Anthology Film Archive. He received his M.A from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980.

Charlie Johnstone is a New York based photographer. His work is to be found in many private collections. He is represented by Meredith Ward Fine Art in New York City. His first book, Havana, will be published in early 2008 to coincide with his solo show at the above gallery.

Stephen Gibbs spent five years living in Cuba as the BBC's correspondent based in Havana. He has worked as a radio and TV reporter for fifteen years; outside Latin America he has spent extended periods reporting from both the Middle East and Africa. He has also written and published 6 children's books.

Johannes Werner is editor of Cuba Trade and Investment News. He resides in Sarasota, Florida.

Wayne is now a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C.. At the time he left the Foreign Service in 1982 because of his disagreements over Cuba policy, he was Chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana and recognized as the State Department's leading specialist on Cuba.

Matthew is now a Director with Ernst and Young responsible for Business Intelligence and Transaction Advisory Services in Cuba. He has spent more than 8 years working predominantly on the island during which time he has managed the audits of some of the largest entities working in Cuba as well as preparing Ernst and Young's Annual Guide to Doing Business with Cuba and other business intelligence convrning the island. Prior to this he worked in London as part of Ernst and Young's capital markets group.

Journalist, travel writer, and essayist, Conner has lived and worked in Cuba since 2002. She first visited the island volunteering as a field hand in 1993 - the nastiest part of the Special Period. Between harvesting boniato and shots of chispa de tren, she fell in love with the island and her future husband (but not fufu). She is the author of over a dozen Lonely Planet guides (including Cuba, 3rd ed.) and scores of feature articles on Cuban travel, health, and culture. Conner's current projects include a documentary about a certain someone's Havana garden, a novel-length essay about being Yuma in Cuba, and an oral history of her 86-year old neighbor. Learn more at her website:
www.connergorry.com

She has had various exhibitons including on Syria and USA in Signal Arts Centre, Bray - Cork Vision Centre - Caherciveen Community Centre and on ‘The Convent’ in the Cahirciveen library. Publication of poems in ‘Wildeside’ and ‘Microbe’ Writing of story ‘The Asphodel People’ Work with Dancer in Residence, Maggie Harvey. Her latest exhibition ‘In search of music…’‘Cuba’ was displayed in Samhlaoicht Gallery, Tralee, July 2007. The prints are for sale and that her film/slide show on DVD for sale too, featuring live recordings by Cuban musicians. See:
www.myspace.com/karolienverheyen