Hermione McCosh started working as a professional photographer in 2009. Living in Paris for the first four years of her career she developed her style of photography in the streets of Paris. Her images often include people and she feels that a photograph becomes fully complete with a person in the image too. The world is full of people, they are necessary in photographs. Hermione works as a portrait & documentary wedding photographer. Her style is very similar throughout her work whether it is travel photographs or weddings.

Hermione is often drawn to the past. She is inspired by historical literature, other worldly paintings and the sense of transient time. Her images are often unplaceable in terms of when they were taken. The selection of photographs below were photographed in Cuba, January 2018 where she spent time in Havana, Viñales, Playa Girón & Trinidad. The cameras she used were alternatively a Canon 5d with 24-105mm lens or Fuji X100.

“There is something rather incredible about this slightly, freaky film set that we have stepped into. I’m not sure I had prepared myself for what it would be like. The dilapidation, the derelict buildings, the faded glamour. It’s depressing yet illuminating and rather incredible that it exists still in this day and age. Until 2008 no one could buy any electrical appliances.

Havana is a forgotten world. It feels like a bombed city. You walk down the street and every second house has the frames of windows and walls yet there are no rooms behind them. A washing line hangs on a building but you wonder where the family are living. Slowly the city seems to be crumbling. Breakfast this morning was in a tiny local cafe on the street below our room. It cost less than £2 for two of us; omelettes, coffees and lots of fresh fruit. There is an endless stream of classic cars, interspersed with a horse and cart passing us by. Cubans must really be the best mechanics in the world to keep them all going. It truly is like stepping back in time.

The photographs I am taking fill me with excitement. You can stumble across utterly theatrical scenes - an old man smoking his cigar in front of a decaying paint peeling wall or cowboys riding bare back with dogs in tow. No thoughts of health and safety. I photographed a man serving drinks to us behind a bar, the smoke from his cigar billowed off around him, the image works very well in black and white."

Reflections of Cuba from a diary whilst traveling. January 2018