Photo Gallery

Cienfuegos at dawn

Quiet street in Cienfuegos

Statue of Benny Moré, Cuba’s jazz legend

2015 Semester Abroad participants

Dr. Patrick Frantom with biochemistry class in Cuba. March 2015

Dr. Patrick Frantom with Dr. Isel Pascual in Cuba, March 2015

Professor Tran is part of the TCF department at UA. While in Cuba in March 2015, Tran worked with Pablo Ayala, a 25 year member of the Cuban Journalists Union.

PhD student Geraldine Francisco Pons, Jose “Pepe” Vazquez Rodriguez, and Rolando Trujillo from the Centro de Servicios Ambientales de Matanzas (CSAM) took UA geography professor Dr. Matthew Therrell to see the “El Patriarcho”, a cactus that is believed to be hundreds of years old. 2015

Tagging on the streets of Havana, July 2015.

Historic square in Old Havana, July 2015

After a musical event at Hotel Inglaterra, Havana, July 2015.

Musical performance, Hotel Inglaterra, Havana

Tagging on the streets of Havana.

Cuban artist Ramón Vargas, Cafe Francesca, Havana, July 2015

View of Havana from atop the Castillo de la Real Fuerza

Entry to a Havana art exhibition

Cuban writers Rito Ramón Aroche and Caridad Atencio, Havana, July 2015.

Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana, July 2015

From Karen Gardner and Brooke Champagne’s UA/UH writing class.

From Karen Gardner and Brooke Champagne’s UA/UH writing class.

Dr. Raul Rodríguez, Cuban Professor from CEHSEU, speaks at UA Nov. 18, 2015.

Planting corn in Trinidad, Cuba.

Julio Larramendi, Cuban ambassador to the Vatican and his wife, and Chip Cooper.

Photographers Chip Cooper and Julio Larramendi enjoy a moment with the cardenal of Cuba, Jaime Ortega, at their show in Rome.

UA photographer Chip Cooper with Cuban photographer Julio Larramendi at their exposition in Rome.

“Award winning Cuban novelist at the University of Alabama campus. “

UA semester students meet with Mons. José Felix López, priest at Santa Rita in Miramar.

Renowned Cuban novelist, Leonardo Padura, with Professor Steve Miller from The University of Alabama and its Cuba Center for Collaboration and Scholarship.

Professor Steve Miller from the UA Book Arts Program gives a lecture on his work in Cuba, where he has worked for years at the ‘Taller Experimental de Gráfica.’