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Time and Tobacco

Close-up photo of a person's hands twisting a tobacco leaf, with details showing aged skin and a green shirt.

 

“Time and Tobacco"
Location: Cuba
Date: March 2024
Photographer: John Butterfield
Affiliation: Alumni
Home Country: United States
Category: Arts & Culture
Award: Second Place
2025 International Photography Exhibition

“While I was on a tour in Cuba, our group spent a few days in Viñales, which is the heart of the country's tobacco region. We visited an older couple on their small tobacco farm. Their homestead had humble furnishings but was very clean and well organized. While the wife was busy in the kitchen with its wood-fired stove, the husband smoked a cigar and shaped tobacco leaves to roll cigars. When thinking about Cuba, one of the first things that comes to mind for many people is cigars. Tobacco growing and the productions of cigars has been part of the Cuban culture for hundreds of years, starting with the indigenous peoples, and Cubans are proud of this tradition. The texture of the elderly man's hands, the leaf and the cigar tell a story of hard work, craft and time.”