Contact Sheet 104 - No es Facil/It's not Easy

Contact Sheet 104 is a photography pubication produced by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run photography center in Syracuse, NY. This issue features 28 duotone reproductions of photographs by Steve Cagan. For several years Cagan has been documenting aspects of the work and social lives of rank-and-file Cubans, and trying to understand and communicate something about their ideas and attitudes about the changes their society is undergoing. His photographs encourage a richer, more complex vision of the Cuban reality. Using portraiture as a major element of his documentary work, Cagan allows his subjects to participate in their own presentation.