” src=”https://palipost.com/story_photos/sugarman.jpg” width=”199″ /> Cruising, 1992 Cienfuegos, Cuba. From 1992 through 1994, Martin Sugarman visited Cuba, and in this series he captures the passions, emotions and feelings displayed by the Cuban. Sugarman’s images are reproduced in his 1995 book, Storm Over Cuba.
In a career spanning more than 30 years, Martin Sugarman has used his camera to document the world’s darkest and most shameful episodes, as well as portraying many renowned artists and beautiful landscapes.
A retrospective of his photographs and paintings opens on Sunday, September 21 at Don Francis Conservation Framing, 2324 Abbot Kinney Blvd. A reception for the artist will be held on Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m.
A professional photographer with a Ph.D. in sociology, Sugarman spent much of his professional life, beginning in 1989, documenting social conflict and daily life of people undergoing cultural and political displacement. His publications include God Be with You: War in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kashmir: Paradise Lost, Storm over Cuba, War Above the Clouds: Siachen Glacier and Speak Palestine, Speak Again.
When not working overseas, Sugarman ventures onto Los Angeles’ streets and beaches and engages in documentary street photography, and painting. One of his favorite subjects is his beloved Pacific Ocean, which he paints from the vantage point of a man who practically grew up on the beach off Santa Monica Canyon. In his early days, Sugarman was an inveterate surfer, living at the beach and even residing on a boat.
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