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Photographer Jean-Christophe Béchet went to Cuba in 1990, when the ”Balseros” were trying to reach the American coast, Florida, on their makeshift rafts. He returned to Havana twenty years later, upon the death of Fidel Castro, discovering a city in the midst of change. American cars are still there but have become taxis for tourists, along the Malecon, buildings are being renovated and luxury bars are flourishing…

As for him, he decided to move away from this tourist theater, preferring to get lost in dark streets, looking for these Cuban sensations: between poverty and class, order and anarchy.

Habana Song is about visual poetry he plays in black and white, far from the clichés and colors that usually identify Cuba. A music that accompanies us throughout this photographic stroll.