Alamar - Habana, Cuba

Mauro D'Agati is an Italian Photographer who has documented a place called Alamar in Havana, Cuba.
Alamar is a place that was constructed to house workers of a steel smelters, Fabrico Vanguardia Socialista in the 1970s. The resulting city was constructed by the workers themselves and it 'was to be a miraculous example to the world, an obligatory first stop for all the people who arrive at the island.' The place is described as 'coarse and crude' but looking through the portfolio of images there is a melancholic beauty to it, where a few treasured possessions glisten. Internal spaces are curated with perhaps, unknowing intensity. Few possessions dominate the spaces. Budget jacquard woven images of swans or dolphins drape on concrete walls.
The empty swimming pool is a trophy of dreams.

Alamar - Habana, Cuba
Mauro D'Agati
Published by Steidl, 2010