Recuerditos de Cuba centers on photographs taken by Anabel Pérez Lubián at age eight during her first return to La Habana, her first trip as a tourist with a camera. Structured like postcards, the book weaves autobiography and decolonial theory through archival materials, examining how memory, tourism, and visual culture intersect, turning inward to domestic interiors and everyday scenes to explore how images shape what is remembered and understood about Cuba.
Designed and produced in collaboration with Dans Jirgensons & Trang Quỳnh Lê. Edited by Grzegorz Gebski.
Selected as part of Best Dutch Book Designs 2025.
14 x 20 cm, 180 pages.
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(1)The book is acting as a postcard. Mailing side on matte paper as the front cover, and a picturesque image on glossy paper as the back cover.
(2)This the first chapter of the thesis, titled Selfie. A photograph inside a hand made plastic envelope opens the text.
(3)Photos from the archive of the artist's family showcase persianas in different times and forms.
(5)The left spread shows the backs of the images contained in a Ziploc bag, a compilation from the artist’s grandfather’s personal archive. On the right, the back of a page from Correos de Cuba, a printed email service from the early 2000s, is displayed.
(7)The spreads showcase the backside of an analogue photograph printed on glossy paper, opposed to the backside of a much older photograph accompanied by a stamp showing a panoramic image of the Plaza de la Revolución, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Declaración de La Habana.
(8)This a section of the book destined to a series of analogue photographs of jabas drying on the balcony.
(9)A red cover printed on metallic silver paper opens the end of the book, which becomes a photo album with photographs made by the artist in 2003.
(10)Embossed stamp designed by Dans Jirgensons.
