FARMER CUBA

Photographer Richard Sharum traveled across Cuba to document life of isolated farmers, or "campesinos" and their wider communities a time of national transition. The stories of these communities have shaped the backbone of Cuba and yet they are rarely represented in the photographic representations of the country. Sharum began to make research on peasant communities at the end of 2015 and its The resulting black and white photographs illustrate the relationship intertwined with people and the land they depend on. Campesino Cuba, documents Sharum's travels across the country's northern and southern coasts, its provinces western and its eastern villages in the heart of the mountain ranges of the Sierra Maestra. As the recent demonstrations have demonstrated anti-government, Cuba is a nation in radical transformation, with deep-rooted social and racial divisions. Sharum has diverted his objective of metropolitan policy, focusing instead on life usually invisible from "campesino", which translates to "peasant" or " farmer ".