My camera is nothing "fancy". It was a Christmas gift from my dad along with a photo book of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, for when I had just dropped out of uni to study photography in 2012. I like to shoot with it because is the best camera I have.
This picture is a portrait of Orlando Morejón Hernandez, a farmer from Viñales, Cuba, when I took this I was at an approved tour by the Cuban government to see the tobacco fields back in 2016, I was interested to know about the ones who stayed (my grandparents were exiled). After we chatted for about ten minutes I asked him if I could take his portrait, I didn’t direct him aside from telling him where to stand, but the way he posed strike me as a man that even though has not chosen his place in the world, commits to his work proudly. Like him, my camera doesn’t limit me, it enables me.
