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It took nearly four years of work to give birth to Roberto

Fumagalli's CUBA VA: a photographer's extraordinary journey into the heart

of the Revolución. Working alongside Roberto Chile, Castro's personal cameraman and the author

of the book's foreword, Fumagalli has managed to capture people and places

never before seen in a book. Access to some of these sites has always been

off-limits to foreign photographers. The photographs in CUBA VA include the

backstage of the world famous Cabaret Tropicana; the women's national

volleyball team, glory of Cuban sports; the country's largest armed forces

training compound; and Alicia Alonso's School of Ballet, together with

research centers, universities, surgery rooms, steel factories, prisons,

psychiatric hospitals, agrarian cooperatives. And the typical Cuban

iconography, revisited. Roberto Fumagalli intimately explores Cuban society and its Revolución,

proposing a complete and original vision of the complex Cuban reality of

today, with its future challenges. "His images have wings and radiate a love of life. Fumagalli exhibits an

amazing mastery of capturing the right moment, a subtle grace in combining

shapes, textures and colors, and a curious clarity in distinguishing the

immense from the daily" (from Roberto Chile's foreword). In May 2006, Fidel Castro personally congratulated Fumagalli for the

extraordinary quality of CUBA VA. 120 pages; 90 color photographs; Italian, Spanish, and English texts.