“The power of the image lies in the image itself and not in its story. It is in the nature of the mind to want to know: it needs stories, labels, logical correlations. But when we think we know, we lose the meaning.”     I had gone down to Piraeus. It was early December but the weather was still very good. Even though I had now been in Greece for about a year, I kept forgetting that I had moved, often giving people my parents’ address by mistake, just by force of habit. So that Saturday, when I visited...

A conversation of Haris Kakarouhas with Ian Jeffrey.   January 2003.   London.   Q. Why did you choose Cuba? A. I could call upon reasons like the living memory of one of my teenage heroes, – I refer to Che of course-, as much as the particularity of the political system; or maybe the fact that I had already acquired a stimulating though slight flavour of the place a few years ago, when on the occasion of a photographic exhibition in Phototeca de Cuba -in which I participated-, I was given a first...