Rebel soldier: One of the many extras from Campeche playing a guerrilla fighter in Che’s army. For my book, The Idea of Cuba, I photographed young Cuban women who had become Jineteras, or prostitutes, to survive financially during the “special period” and waning days of Fidel’s rule. On the set of Che I was particularly interested in photographing ordinary Mexican women playing Cuban rebels and townspeople, to have a sense of young Cuban women living through a very different moment in history.
