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Intimate portraits of Cuba’s most flamboyant carnival performers

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(CNN)When London-based fashion photographer Salvatore di Gregorio was invited by Cuba’s minister of culture to shoot a photo essay in December 2015, he was intent on capturing the country’s celebrated comparsas: the flamboyantly dressed performers who have become the face of carnival throughout the Caribbean and South America.

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Las Comparsas de Cuba is on view at the Fototeca de Cuba in Havana until Jan. 4, 2017.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/29/arts/las-comparsas-de-cuba/index.html

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