My Street: Cuban Stories
„My Street. Cuban Stories”
Book launch: 25 February 2010, 19:00
Sofia
ONDA Coffee Shop
edited by Diana Ivanova and Babak Salari
design by Raycho Stanev
www.janet45.com
My Street is a talking mirror, a page that recognizes us as we are.
Roberto Zurbano Torres,
Cultural critic, Havana
My Street: Cuban Stories is a uniquie collection of stories and photographs gathered during autumn 2009 in 6 Cuban cities by three people – a Bulgarian, an Iranian and a Cuban.
52 Cubans between 15 and 50 years old wrote about theirs street and took pictures on them.
The result is a book full with poetry, nostalgia and intimacy, „The everyday tales of people who refuse to see the world stripped of its magic”, as Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov describes it.
Diana Ivanova
is a traveler, journalist and writer living in Sofia . She has primarily lived on streets with men’s names, from Hadzhi Dimitar to Petar Parchevich.
Babak Salari
is a Iranian-born photographer currently living in Montreal , Canada . He frequently changes the street he lives on. He has no street of his own at the moment.
Ulises Quintana de Armas
is an accountant by trade, a poet in spirit. He lives in Casablanca and works in Havana . He has never left Cuba .
www.my-street.org