SYNOPSIS

Havana, in a collective taxi:

Carlos, a random passenger is concerned: "Everyday more and more of your people are in the streets!"

1. -"How do you call someone who is neither woman nor man?" His wife Rosa is clueless too: "Transvestite, Transsexual, transgender, queer, homosexual, non binary, pan gender, third sex?!"
   

2. -"I am! That's all! No theory! No sciences! No discourses! No label! Case closed!" responds Reinier and keeps painting lips.
   

3. -"Oye, tremendo arroz con mango!"* replied Carlos, "where is this supposed to end? What the hell are you?"
   

4. - "The new man!"** Reinier laughs loud while he is fixing his wig: "Viva la revolución, compañeros!" he replies, jumps out of the car and gets lost in the crowd...
   

NOTES:

1. *The Cuban slang “rice with mango” (rice with mango) is a typical expression for a sticky situation, something scandalous or a big mess
   

** Allusion to the central aim of the socialist revolution: The creation of the NEW MAN!

AWARDS (for single photos of the series by Juan Aristides Otamendiz)

1. -KOLGA PHOTO AWARD 2017 / shortlisted  category „documentary“ / Tbilisi History Museum / GEORGIA
   

2. -ATHEN PHOTO FESTIVAL 2017 / shortlisted / GREECE
   

EXHIBITIONS / SHOWCASES  (single photos of the series)

1. - PORTFOLIO WALK / presented by the DFA / NRW FORUM - Forum for modern art / Düsseldorf GERMANY / 2018
   

2. - KOLGA PHOTO AWARD 2017 showcase  at KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO week, May 2017, GEORGIA
   

3. -„F22“ - contemporary Cuban photography“ presented by UNEAC - Unión de escritores y artistas de Cuba, February 2017, La Habana, CUBA
   

CREDITS

Artist JUAN ARISTIDES OTAMENDIZ  / KIRSTIN SCHMITT Havana & Berlin

Local producer  JUAN ARISTIDES OTAMENDIZ Havana

Executive producer  KIRSTIN SCHMITT Havana & Berlin

Co-producer  MAREN SCHMITT Berlin

Production house  SAILOR`S YARN Berlin