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My dream is… to travel to New York City to meet all the great American rappers. To be able to sing a song together with all of them, promoting peace around the world. Mario Delgado Sotomayor, 36, was born in Lawton (Havana). After his mother died when he was 17, he lost his…
The Art of Street Portraiture
Posted by KIKE CALVO of Photographer; Expert at National Geographic Expeditions on February 27, 2013 While traveling in Cuba with National Geographic Expeditions I had the fortunate opportunity to interview a real life ¨fotógrafo minutero¨ that expanded my knowledge on a craft that is used less frequently now a days, but still in Cuba, Argentina and other locations around the world. The beauty of these fotógrafos minuteros or street portrait photographers, is…
For those of you who have been readers of National Geographic for years now, you may remember a beautiful and visually captivating article on Trinidad, Cuba, with images by David Alan Harvey, published 14 years ago. In one of the photographs, Rosa Orbea was combing the hair of her niece, Annalien Santander Orbea. Annalien was…
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November’s “National Geographic” cover story is about life in Cuba — but it’s also about the ocean. Explorer Clare Fieseler shares photos from the Cuban coast that help illuminate the human-ocean challenges embedded in the new article.
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In January the Cuban government will lift its unpopular requirement that citizens must get exit visas before being allowed to leave the country.
National Geographic editor Barbara Paulsen interviewed contributing writer Cynthia Gorney about the proposed change. Gorney recently spent three months in Cuba reporting for the magazine on how the new rules opening up the country’s economy are playing out in everyday life. Her article, “Cuba’s New Now,” is the cover story of the November issue.
November’s “National Geographic” cover story is about life in Cuba — but it’s also about the ocean. Explorer Clare Fieseler shares photos from the Cuban coast that help illuminate the human-ocean challenges embedded in the new article.
Posted by I had an opportunity to visit Cuba in May 2012 under a licensed program with the Vermont Caribbean Institute. This article is a follow-up effort to learn and engage with other environmental researchers yearning for more cooperation between the United States and Cuba. I have not dealt with the political aspects of the conflict between…
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Join our live conversation with writer and photographer Christopher Baker- winner of the Lowell Thomas Award 2008 ‘Travel Journalist of the Year’- for this week’s Facebook Live. Tune in Friday, April 13th on National Geographic’s Facebook page to discover the ins and outs of an exciting career in travel journalism.
THE MAP OF MY DREAMS
Posted by Juan Valdes on July 26, 2011 In light of today’s Washington Post article , I wanted to share some thoughts on our new Cuba map . My career as a cartographer, and now as The Geographer, at the National Geographic Society, spans more than 30 years. In that time I have worked, in one manner or another, on most if not all…
CUBA ON MY MIND: An Editorial Tour of the Island
Posted by Juan Valdes on June 7, 2011 Cuba Map: Editorial revisions on a section of the Final Correction copy. Twenty correction copies with over 800 revisions were made to the map before it was cleared to go on press. When I tell people that my profession is that of a map editor at National Geographic, I oftentimes get “What does that…
CUBA ON MY MIND: Creating a New Classic Map
Posted by Juan Valdes on June 7, 2011 Base map of Cuba as first exported from GIS prior to styling in Adobe Illustrator. Ever since first becoming a cartographer at the National Geographic Society it has been the creation of new maps that has so appealed to me. To take a mountain of lines, place-names, and other geographic data and meld it all…
CUBA ON MY MIND: Armchair Traveling
Posted by Juan Valdes on June 7, 2011 A georeferenced image of a NOAA Bathymetric chart overlaid on a GIS shapefile of area coastlines. As a National Geographic GIS Cartographer, people frequently inquire whether I get to travel to gather the data we use on our maps. I suppose National Geographic still evokes those romantic images of cartographers out in the…
CUBA ON MY MIND: Hitting the Cartographic Jackpot
Posted by Juan Valdes on June 7, 2011 New Cuban provinces as announced in the Gaceta Oficial de La Republica de Cuba, No. 023, September 2010 I have been assigned the task of researching and compiling our forthcoming map of Cuba. During the early stages of my research, I hit the cartographic jackpot—the possibility of two new provinces forming in 2011. Not only…
CUBA ON MY MIND
Posted by Juan Valdes on June 7, 2011 New and Complete Map of Cuba, supplement to National Geographic magazine, October 1906; NG Maps. Since our first post, this blog has addressed the history of cartography at National Geographic, geographic names (toponyms), and even the cartographic exploits of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, the American artist best known for the painting “Whistler’s Mother.” I hope…
