Felicia Rosshandler and Edmundo Desnoes work separately and as a couple.

Rosshandler was born in Berlin and has lived in Antwerp, Havana and New York City. She studied photography with Joseph Breitenbach and has worked as a reporter and translator on the Spanish and International editions of LIFE magazine. She is represented by Galleria Del Leone, in Venice, Italy. Rosshandler's European and Latin American upbringing have illuminated her American experience. In her photography, she has rendered plastic flesh with the sensuous richness that previously existed only in marble and oil painting. Her photographic essay, Flesh and Fantasy, was recently exhibited at The Kitchen in New York City. Her novel, Passing Through Havana was published by St. Martin's Press in l984. Images are as important for her as words.

Desnoes is one of Cuba's best known writers. His novel, Memories of Underdevelopment, has been translated into French, Italian, and German. The English edition, published by New American Library, is his own translation. The film version is a seminal Latin American film. Desnoes defected in l979 during the Venice Bienale where he was participating as a critic. It marked the end of his commitment to any form of ideology. He has taught at Dartmouth, Stanford and Smith College. His essay, The Photographic Image of Underdevelopment, is a classic on the visual interpretation of Latin America. He has contributed to Aperture and other international reviews. After ten years of silence, Desnoes is now working with the ambiguity of the printed magazine image.

Rosshandler and Desnoes met as adolescents in Cuba. They now live and work in New York City.

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