Villa 366 Calle San Nicolás - R0013485

Breakfast on the villa roof top.

Joining us for breakfast is photographer Pok Chi Lau. He has created photo essays of Cuba 2009-2011.

His bio:

Across the years, he has come to the realization that in the history of China, stretching from around 1700 to 1950, her poor coastal fishing villagers experienced some of the first Diasporas to different parts of the world, especially Southeast Asia.

He was born in British Hong Kong in 1950. Since 1967, Pok Chi Lau 劉博智, has been a documentary photographer. His work on migration focuses on the Chinese Diaspora in the Americas, Cuba, and Malaysia and now Myanmar. For a decade, he also documented the Diaspora within China, where rural peasants/migrants from all over China moved to seek factory work in coastal Made-in-China regions. 

Pok Chi Lau is Professor Emeritus of PhotoMedia in the Department of Design at the University of Kansas, which has provided him with numerous international research opportunities, and through which his work has been exhibited and published broadly. Besides his work as a documentary photographer, Lau's work as a poet and essayist has led him to collaborate with professionals in East Asian studies, journalism, ethnic studies, anthropology and social science.

http://pokchilau.format.com/cuban-chinese-interiors

http://pokchilau.format.com/cuban-chinese-deities-altars-cemetery

http://pokchilau.format.com/cuban-chinese-portraits

Pok Chi Lau video about the two Cuban Chinese opera singers and other Cuban Chinese islanders.

Caridad Amaran and Georgina Wong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF5t5P7h5IM