• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 09 / 06 / 2011

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By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte.  11:45Buenos Aires, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) Photographer Roberto Chile's exhibition, "Afro-Descendants-Guanabacoa-Cuba," opens on Monday at the Nestor Kirchner Casa Patria Grande center, and will be open for a week.

The show, which premiered in June at the Casa America center in Madrid, comprises 40 black and white photos taken this year in the Havana municipality of Guanabacoa, and was declared here to be of social and cultural interest on the proposal of Peronist legislator.

The Buenos Aires Legislature declared Chile as a Guest of Honor, describing him as an important documentary maker, photographer and "chronicler of his time, who has extolled the values of Cuban artists and creators in over 80 short and medium length documentary films."

Chile's well-known works include the documentary film "Desafio" (Challenge), about the effects of the U.S. economic blockade on Cuba, and "En las laderas del Himalaya" (On the Hillsides of the Himalaya), about 2,500 Cuban physicians and health technicians who worked in Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake.

Also included are "En mis ojos brillas tu" (You Light up my eyes) and "Hagase la luz" (Let There Be Light), about the Operation Miracle program in Venezuela and the Caribbean, and "Oda a la Revolucion" (Ode to the Revolution), to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

The Legislature also noted Chile's work as personal cameraman of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, whom he accompanied on trips in Cuba and worldwide from 1984 to 2006, and his photos of the historic leader taken between July 2010 and March 2011.