A series to delve into the work of Raúl Cañibano, José María Mellado & Héctor Garrido.

Cuba and photography are the two inspirational points that unite the story of three photographers with a relevant national and international career: Raúl Cañibano, José María Mellado and Héctor Garrido. A story that is now told not only in images but also in a documentary series that under the title Three photographers under the light of Cuba delves into the memories, images, trips and scenes shared by these authors for many years.

Directed and produced by Laura de la Uz and Héctor Garrido himself, the series takes place in 8 chapters whose titles reveal the themes addressed in each of them: framing, inspiration, places, light and color, technique and the essence of the image. In a three-way dialogue, relaxed, the three photographers tell us about their artistic adventures that are behind the camera and that we rarely have the pleasure of knowing. They tell us what moves or inspires them, how they build their images, from very own languages that today differentiate and distinguish each of them, as Héctor Garrido himself expresses:

“The three of us, Raúl Cañibano, José María Mellado, like me, make radically different photographs both in conception and execution. Raúl Cañibano makes group sets in street or rural photographs, Mellado works a quiet landscape photography where the very fact of placing a tripod is already marking the inspiratory depth of the moment, I mean, there is a slow execution of the moment that is very important. Work on the lights, on the difference of lights. And I (Héctor Garrido) work a half-dream world that sometimes I’m based on the purely geometric, as in my fractal work, and other times on visualizations of faces that I keep in my memory and I want to somehow show again through my photography in people with whom I am working.”

“Three photographers under the light of Cuba”, shows us the gaze of three authors who, from a common physical and symbolic space, portray different realities, based on motifs that vary, and find another reading in their frames. From one end of the island to the other they have traveled looking for landscapes, characters, motifs, stories, scenes that are eternalized in the lens and technique of each one. The series is an excellent excuse to learn more about the photographic production of Garrido, Mellado and Cañibano, as they are often recognized because their imprint is important.