Some of the photographs I took as a student remain my favorites to this day. I’m not sure if it’s because of the pictures themselves or my memory of everything feeling fresh and exciting. This photograph is of a man I met in Cuba in the ’90’s. I remember printing it for the first time on warm tone fibre paper in the university darkroom and feeling the entire process to be magical. Now the pixie dust has worn off and neither shooting nor printing holds the allure that it once did. I still do love looking at good photographs, though, and would count this as one.