Exhibitions

Te di todus mis suenos, I give you all my dreams - Desiree Dolron

4 October - 6 December 2008, Pataka, cnr Norrie and Parumoana Sts, Porirua

Desiree Dolron is a young Dutch photographer who has become known both for her probing travel reports as well as for her staged photographs made partly with the help of the computer.

Dolron manages to make her photographs look like beautifully lit paintings - much like the old Flemish masters. Her subject for this exhibition is that world we hold full of romance: residential Havana, Cuba.

Unlike most photographers who want to capture the beauty of Cuba, Dolron brings a sophisticated eye, ready to find and capture scenes of such ordinariness that few of us would have looked twice.

She gives us an 'inside look' at some of the deprived areas of Cuba and captures a sequence of discrete moments selected for their power of expression and atmosphere.