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> Contemporary photography by Néstor Martí, based in Havana, Cuba. Images as acts of appropriation and transformation.


## Pages

- [My Name is Time.](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/my-name-is-time/): My Name is Time Name: A word that designates or identifies persons, animals, things, places, or concepts, whether real or imaginary.Time: A physical magnitude and fundamental concept that measures the duration, separation, and sequential order of events. × ❮ ❯
- [Despite the Time](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/despite-the-time/): A Pesar del Tiempo / In Spite of Time This body of work unfolds as both a mosaic-like installation and a series of individual photographs, allowing open associations between image and text. Produced through in-camera double exposure, it embraces chance and unpredictability over control. Fragments of text, removed from their original contexts, are reconfigured alongside photographic images, generating new meanings through displacement. Operating like an exquisite corpse, these combinations evoke a persistent, mantra-like subtext—one that emerges through repetition and continues to resonate in spite of time. × ❮ ❯
- [100 Years of Art Deco](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/100-years-of-art-deco/)
- [Traces of Art Nouveau](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/traces-of-art-nouveau/)
- [Havana in Black and White](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/havana-in-black-and-white/): Havana in Black and White Portrait of a city, its streets, its light, its people. × ❮ ❯
- [Light in Shadow](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/light-in-shadow/): Light in Shadow Light in Shadow explores the urban landscape through the interplay of light and shadow. Traversing the space between documentation and interpretation, the work focuses on ephemeral configurations shaped by harsh—at times blinding—natural light.Shadows cease to be mere absences, becoming active forms: structures that redefine perception. Within this shifting terrain, the city emerges as a constructed image, where visibility is unstable and meaning unfolds in the tension between presence and ephemerality. × ❮ ❯
- [Morro Cabaña Essay](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/morro-cabana-essay/): Morro Cabaña Essay A hasty, timeless photo essay. × ❮ ❯
- [Architecture and Interiors](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/architecture-and-interiors/): Architecture and Interiors This selection brings together architectural and interior images from Havana, developed across two coffee table books where they form an essential, though often understated, presence. Moving beyond documentation, these works consider built space as a lived and layered environment—where structure, light, and use converge. × ❮ ❯
- [Shadows Stories](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/shadows-stories/)
- [Shadows found](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/shadows-found/): Sombras Encontradas / Found Shadows Found Shadows examines the act of recognizing oneself within the projected image of a shadow—an anonymous, faceless form that nonetheless affirms identity. Echoing the philosopher’s allegory of the cave, the work situates the subject between light and its projection, between presence and perception. Rather than light itself, the series centers on its residual trace: the shadow as a site of meaning. Here, the image becomes both a point of estrangement and a moment of return—a fragmented encounter with the Self. Spanning from traditional photographic practices to installation-based works, Found Shadows unfolds as a self-referential inquiry […]
- [The Island](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/the-island/): La Isla / The Island Everyone of us is like an island. Photographs to illustrate the book of poems «5 Poemas Griegos» (5 Greek Poems) by Roberto Fernández Retamar. Image projections onto the model’s body. × ❮ ❯
- [Adjacent Seas](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/adjacent-seas/): Mares Adyacentes / Adjacent Seas Sea: Expanse of salty water that covers most of the Earth surface. Adjacent: adj. Contiguous, immediate, located in proximity to something. The seas that surrounds an island that is like your body, forming an illusory border. Your body as an island, the island is your body, I am the island inhabited by myself, under siege by sea that vanishes its shores, reducing or increasing at times its size. The sea connects as it separates. It is not inconspicuous, it forces one to look since this island that I inhabit is not motionless. An eternal dialogue […]
- [To Have Control](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/to-have-control/): To Have Control Performance at the «Alternative Costume Workshop,» as part of the 9th Havana Biennial. A message, presented in three different forms and printed on T-shirts in the manner of an advertising campaign: To Have Control. An image of a remote control accompanies the message. The Artwork takes an everyday urban character, same as the theme. × ❮ ❯
- [Selfportrait Under Control](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/selfportrait-under-control/): Self-portrait Under Control Selfportrait Under Control is part of a larger series that takes the remote control as a starting point to reflect on the relationship between the Self and the Other, and on contemporary dependence on self-created artifacts. Control and submission become interchangeable roles, as the object acquires agency over the subject. Using in-camera double exposure, the work embraces chance over control, allowing unexpected images to emerge. What begins as a game evolves into a shift in representation: an ordinary object becomes a form of self-portraiture, where the everyday transforms into the extraordinary. × ❮ ❯
- [In - Out](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/in-out/): In – Out This installation examines the tensions between the Self and the Other, between desire and its objects, power and what is desired. From these dynamics, artifacts emerge as both mediators and structures of reinforcement. Focusing on the contemporary human condition, the work addresses our dependence on self-produced technologies, where tools of comfort shift into forms of control. The subject–object relationship becomes unstable, unfolding within an interior, psychological space. Here, a reversal occurs: the subject becomes captive to its own desires, and to the objects that embody them. × ❮ ❯
- [Remote Controller](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/remote-controller/): Remote Controller Remote Controller is a photographic installation that reflects on our relationship with the things that surround us, and our dependence on the artifacts we have created for our comfort and freedom. × ❮ ❯
- [Smoke](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/smoke/): Humo / Smoke Work in Progress. × ❮ ❯
- [Home Mobile](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/home-mobile/)
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- [Contact](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/contact/): For inquiries regarding prints, exhibitions, workshops, or assignments: contact@nestormartiphotography.com Para consultas sobre prints, exposiciones, workshops o encargos:
- [About](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/about/)
- [Workshops](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/workshops/)
- [Articles](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/articles/): Articles – Néstor Martí Photography Articles are published in their original language. Smithsonian Magazine — The Man Who Saved Havana Smithsonian Magazine · May 2018 For decades, Eusebio Leal Spengler fought to preserve the crumbling colonial heart of Havana — a city that photographers like Néstor Martí documented with rare intimacy. A portrait of the man who transformed ruins into a living monument… Read more → Alabama Public Radio — Interview w. Cuban Photographer Néstor Martí Alabama Public Radio (APR) · 2009 A candid radio interview in which Néstor Martí discusses his work documenting Havana’s streets and people, the relationship […]
- [Books](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/books/): Books – Néstor Martí Photography Cuban Photography Anthologies The Light in Cuban Eyes Lake Forest College’s Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection · Robert Mann Gallery, 2015 A landmark bilingual anthology documenting contemporary Cuban photography between 1992 and 2012, featuring 50 artists whose work ranges from documentary to conceptual. The first North American publication supported by the Cuban Ministry of Culture and the Fototeca de Cuba. Néstor Martí’s work is among the 170 pieces in the collection… Read more → The Allure of a Gaze: Body Photography in Cuba 1840–2013 Rafael Acosta de Arriba · Ediciones Boloña, 2014 Una exhaustiva antología que […]
- [Prints](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/prints/)
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- [Body of Work](https://honeydew-seahorse-114417.hostingersite.com/body-of-work/): ‘»Every photograph is an act of a appropriation and transformation» Smoke Remote Controller In – Out To Have Control Selfportrait Under Control The Island Adjacent Seas Shadows Found My Name is Time Despite the Time Morro Cabaña Essay Light in Shadow Havana in Black and White Architecture and Interiors
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