The photographs of Havana-born Raúl Cañibano cut through the visual clichés that often inform people's impressions of Cuba. A deeply committed artist whose work is rooted in an anthropological perspective, he present in urban and rural settings a vibrant and complex insider's view of his country's collective character.

The contemporary photographer has taken the genre of visual autobiography to deeper and darker places than most others dare to tread. Combining digital and historic analog processes, her highly charged images convey a harrowing yet ultimately inspiring story of self-recognition and recovery.

A Frenchman living in Corsica who carne to the medium in the late 1980s, Jean-Phillipe Poli utilizes mundane visual forms—empty houses, deserted streets, abandoned objects—to craft hypnotic if ambiguous photographic reveries that evoke melancholy, time and lived experiences.