Travel to Cuba -What’s it Like to be Stranded on an Island with Fidel Castro?

Jim Colton took up photography at the age of 13 in his home state of Minnesota when he inherited a Voightlander 120 film camera with a leaky bellows.  He taped up the bellows and set up a darkroom in the only bathroom in his family’s home of seven. He’s been a photographer ever since.  After graduating with mechanical engineering degrees from the University of Minnesota and Stanford, he worked at SRI International for 45 years where he performed research on the effects of explosions on structures.

During the last decade Jim, through his photography, has sought to capture the people and culture of other countries including Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Guatemala, Argentina, and Chile.  In February of 2015, he was a visiting artist to Cuba where he had the opportunity to engage with numerous Cuban citizens. His presentation today will focus on the lives of the common people in Cuba before and after the Cuban Revolution.