Sydney digital creative Nic Hodges reposts a blog he, and friend Tim, wrote during their travels to Mexico and Cuba in early 2006. Havana. "You wanna buy cigar? Cohiba? I give good price!!" What a crazy place. It's hard to reconcile the obvious poverty and shortages of basic necessities (like toilet seats, bottled water, some foodstuffs) with the sometimes ostentatious wealth (the dudes driving audis). The city is ... Read full entry

Cuban photographer Alberto Korda's iconic photograph of Che Guevara is considered "the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century", yet Korda didn't directly receive a cent for his work. There were two significant reasons for this. When Korda was asked by Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, who went on sell two million copies of the image, how much royalty money he wanted, Korda replied ... Read full entry