La Havane - Newspaper

François Hosy

The sixth issue of the newspaper self publication is the first one in color!

Lately I was really interested by the old communist countries, especially for their social modernism architecture. So when I had the opportunity to go to Cuba, I couldn’t resist about the idea of doing a Newspaper about La Havane, the city of Ernest Hemingway.

In January 2020 I spent 4 days there and for the first time I shot everything only in color. I wanted to show the emptiness, the abundance of life, the wear of time
in the houses, buildings, streets, places and the constant warm light of the sun.

All the shots have benne made with a Minolta CLE ( Minolta Rokkor 40mm f2, Canon ltm 28mm f2.8 & Jupiter 9 85mm f2 ) on Kodak Gold and Lomography color Neg100.

– type: Newspaper
– format: 12 pages – 350mm x 500mm
– Printed in England
– Edition of 50 (all hand-numbered)

Francois Hosy is a freelance graphic designer, who started analog photography in 2016 and since then experimented with different camera, technique, and even create his own recycled handmade darkroom paper. His pictures are always a mix between architecture, still life and street photography.