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DOYLESTOWN, PA - Black and white photographs depicting tobacco farmers, their families and a rural landscape in Cuba's Pinar del Rio Province are on view at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown from August 16, 2008 through January 4, 2009. Cuba: Camp Adentro, meaning "deep within the country," is a series by Philadelphia photographer Susan S. Bank who stumbled upon an agricultural community in the Valley of Vinales in 2002 while on break from a project in Havana. Working simply with a 35mm camera on return visits to barrio Cuajaní over the next five years, Bank documented 10 households who appeared to have never before been photographed, growing their own food, surviving without any modern conveniences and a living a life firmly anchored in family, neighbors, animals and love of their land. According to Kristy... [read full story]
