About the Photographer Marucha and Mayito Haya, Maria Eugenia
(Cuban, 1941-1991) and García Joya, Mario (Cuban, b. 1938)
During Cuba's Revolution in 1959 the heroic personas of Fidel
Castro and Che Guevara were established in part thanks to epic-
feeling, and now iconic, images made by three photographers:
Raúl Corrales, Osvaldo Salas, and Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez (also
known as Korda). These men are often viewed as the cornerstones
of Cuban photography, although subsequent generations of
photographers have made significant contributions as well. As
curator Tim Wride describes in the catalogue for the exhibition
Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution, which
toured to the Museum of Contemporary Photography in 2002, Cuban
photographers in the years following the overthrow of the
Batista regime effectively shifted the focus away from the
Revolution's charismatic leaders, instead situating their work
within the context of everday life. Maria Eugenia Haya and Mario
García Joya were among a rising wave