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This is a picture of a picture of Gregorio Fuentes, the fisherman in The Old Man and the Sea - a story which Hemmingway wrote in Cuba in 1951 and which was the final work published in his lifetime, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He said it was 'the best I can write in all of my life'.

Found in a small fishing village, 2 hours from Havana

I love this picture. I love the act of him throwing the net into the wind and the freedom with which it then moves, as if the great force of the sea is instilled within it. The power of the wind echoes that of the tide so that the net embodies the traveling white horses, that dance on the surface with the delicacy of lace despite the rising power beneath.