Making his appearance in the 1980s, Carlos Mayol was part of a generation of young Cuban photographers who ushered in what has been sometimes called the wave of ‘New Photographers of the Revolution’. The documentary street photography of Mayol and his contemporaries presented a more fragmented and chaotic view of urban life, exposing the previously ignored complexities of the socialist country. Mayol’s small, almost fleeting images of Havana are interested in the microscopic dynamics of the everyday, the individual and the way they affect the textures of the city. As art historian Grethel Morell has noted, through the work of photographers like Mayol, ‘one is attuned to the introspective: a coupling of intimate, private space with shared or public space.’ (1)

Mayol has exhibited widely in Cuban and the USA. His work is held in a number of public collections, such as the Cuban-American Phototeque Foundation. He currently shares his time between the USA and Cuba.

1) Grethel Morell, ‘Contemporary Cuban Photography: Architecture and the City’, published in Cuban Art News, July 20, 2013, http://www.cubanartnews.org/news/contemporary-cuban-photography-architecture-and-the-city/2995, accessed 20.01.2014