Te Di Todos Mis Suenos (Cuba) captures a fascinating urban landscape at peace with its turmoil. In Desiree Dolron’s images, Cuba’s chaotic past is captured within it’s equally captivating present, and intimated within the frame is a dark anticipation of how close Cuba is to changing forever.

Dolron exudes a passion that fires a fundamental understanding of her medium, a quality not always found in contemporary photography. Constantly photographing the environments she immerses herself in, her photographs inspire the viewer to also experience total immersion in her vision.

Redefining established photographic boundaries, Dolron’s images encourage us to participate at different levels of involvement through her personal attitudes to her chosen subject. There are clearly political overtones in the Cuba project, but Dolron has always confronted the political issues within her work face-on without avoiding the responsibilities and key issues raised by her intervention. However, Dolron does not try to influence the subject matter at inception but controls the ‘reality’ by her ability to tame the light and colours to enhance her point of view. This use of colour, light, composition and camera placement lends the images a mesmerising depth, placing them comfortably between the two disciplines of documentary and art photography.

Dolron’s pictures demand to be viewed up close and in the flesh. The monumental scale of the work and the surface qualities that lead us into her world are a revelation, and shows that photography transcends the boundaries that have lead commentators to wrongly predict that photography is dead. Through the lens of Desiree Dolron, contemporary photography is alive, and well tended by this unique and powerful artist.