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“The first time I held a camera in my hands,” Zoe confesses, “I felt something strange and unforgettable, something that I cannot describe as sensation but as emotion. It was as if for the first time in my life, I had the power of choice, of deciding for myself what I wanted to do. As part of that generation, I felt I could not miss out on that once-in-a-lifetime chance of capturing so much beauty and revealing them through my photographs. My pictures were born after listening to a song or after an embrace. They depict real life, freedom in its purest form–only love and music.”
Call it destiny, karma, divine intervention or human effort, we are sometimes lucky enough to be present when great things happen or to live in a time of decisive events. This is the case of Zoe Alvarez, who lived not only in the 1960s, but in Cuba in a time of significant change.
One morning, the slender, delicate and very blonde Zoe got into her 1955 Chevy and headed for the usual photo session with one of the great photographers of the time, Alberto Korda, who took the world-famous picture of Che Guevara. Zoe’s image was that of the spirit of the times–liberating and revolutionary. Every day she would come home dreaming of being part of a unique moment, a turning point. In the late 1960s, she had already been seduced by the irresistible force of photography and began to capture innumerable special moments and important figures in Cuba.
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