Cuban photographer Jaime Prendes, known for his work in his native Isla de la Juventud, murió el domingo in the special municipality.
“We will announce the news of the death of Jaime Prendes, the Ojo of the Isle of Pinos and one of the best photographers in Cuba”, published the review El Caimán Barbudo on your Facebook profile.
Taking a loss to his wife, the poet Bellasoe Cobas, passed March 12 through a long struggle against cancer. The couple has been married for 14 years.
Model Claudia Santanach, resident of the Canary Islands, Spain, says: “I’m in shock, I’m just saying that I’m thankful for teaching the world of photography and modeling. Do you believe that I met the bitch and did not know how to agradezco. Fuiste el mejor fotógrafo para mí, siempre te voy a tener en el corazón a ti ya mi Bella hermosa “.
For his friend Julio César Sánchez, “an artist has died. A good man. You have to fight for everything to live without Bella”.
Sanchez pronounces the next words in the predicament of the duel of Prendes: “Allí estás, in the anthology of erotic photography in Cuba, summarizes all the times. Alli estás, in the movies of Fernando Pérez. Allí estás, en la passion desenfundada de los que se sansan de crear. This work is irreverent, uncompromising and beautiful poetry “.
“Jaime, the daughter of Camila and Jesus. She has three children. She died in Placetas. It was November 21, 1966. Today is March 21, Poetry Day, which marks the beginning of the world of flowers. And the 21 is a sagrado number.As if the cosmic balances trazaran the derroteros of its time. Hoy hablaremos de la vida, de la huella de Prendes en las calles de su tiempo, en las orillas de las hojas, en el mármol de los pinos , in the corpses desnudos, en la vida con alas parzancar los horizons impossibles “, añadió.
“Friends of allegory and loyalty. There was no fear of the sound of love. He killed a poet of light”, he concluded.
One of the most popular exhibitions at Prendes fue The act of giving money, with 30 images depicting the “new man”.