Polly Barr: Polly Barr is a master printer residing in Atlanta, Georgia. She has printed work by many well-known photographers and has printed work for numerous publications. Ms. Barr has made all of the silver prints for Cuba: Picturing Change. Ambrosio Fornet: Renowned Cuban author, literary critic, editor, screenwriter, lecturer, and professor, Ambrosio Fornet was born in Bayamo, Cuba, in 1932. He studied at New York University and at the Universidad Central de Madrid, where he finished in 1959. His books include One Step from the Deluge (1958) and The Book in Cuba (1994), a study of Cuba's editorial movement during the colonial period. Professor Fornet has edited numerous volumes including the Anthology of the Contemporary Cuban Story (1967), Narrations of Franz Kafka (1964), and Recovered Memories: Introduction to the Literary Speech of Dispersion (2000), which features the literary discourse of exiled Cuban authors. He also edited the volume Bridging Enigma: Cubans on Cuba (1997), which was a special issue of the "South Atlantic Quarterly" published by Duke University. Among his movie scripts Portrait of Teresa (1979) stands out. Professor Fornet has taught or lectured at numerous institutions, including the University of Havana's School of Scientific Information, the San Antonio de Baños International School of Film and Television, and at the universities of Alicante and Extremadura in Spain. He was a Visiting Professor at Duke University in 1999. He currently serves as Chairman of the Editorial Council of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. He is a Full Adjunct Professor at the Superior Institute of Art and a member of the Cuban Academy of Language in Havana, where he currently lives. Ambrosio Fornet is the contributing essayist for Cuba: Picturing Change. María Cecilia Bermúdez García: Dr. Cecilia García received a Ph.D. in history from the Institute of Latin America of the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universidad Central of Santa Clara in 1961. She has served in the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations in various capacities, including Cultural Attaché in the Cuban Embassy in Bolivia and Cultural Attaché at the Permanent Mission of Cuba at the United Nations. Dr. Cecilia García provided the Spanish translation of Professor Pérez's essay and is currently retired and living in Havana. Joanna Hurley: Joanna Thorne Hurley is the owner of HurleyMedia in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has over twenty years experience in book publishing, primarily in marketing and publicity. Her firm specializes in media relations, author tours, and consulting for small and medium-sized publishers as well as for authors. Over the years she has worked on over fifty photography books, either as editor, publicist, or packager. She was the literary agent as well as overall consultant on Cuba: Picturing Change, assisting E. Wright Ledbetter in assembling the rest of the team that has worked on the book and arranging for its publication. Laurie Kratochvil: Laurie Kratochvil is the Director of Photography at In Style Magazine in New York. She has been involved in the world of photography for over twenty-five years, beginning her career at the Los Angeles Times in 1974 and working for numerous national publications before joining Rolling Stone in 1982. During her twelve years there, the magazine won every major photography award, including the National Magazine Award. Ms. Kratochvil is a frequent panelist and lecturer on photography. She has curated photography exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and has judged numerous photography competitions. She has also consulted for magazines such as Mirabella, Self, Modern Maturity, and IBM's new publication, Think. She has edited a number of books, including Cyclops by Albert Watson, Elements of Style by Phillip Bloch, Africa by Herb Ritts, and the New York Times best seller Rolling Stone: The Photographs. Kratochvil teaches at the Santa Fe Workshops in New Mexico and at the International Center of Photography in New York, where she is actively involved as a distinguished member of the President's Council. She is also actively involved with Photographers & Friends United Against AIDS. Laurie Kratochvil is the photography editor for Cuba: Picturing Change. E. Wright Ledbetter: Born in 1967 in Rome, Georgia, E. Wright Ledbetter is a self-taught photographer. Cuba: Picturing Change is his first book and represents his most in-depth photographic study to date. Cuba: Picturing Change was nominated in 2000 for the Infinity Award in Photojournalism from the International Center of Photography in New York. Mr. Ledbetter obtained a B.A. from Washington and Lee University (1989) and a M.Ed. from Vanderbilt University (2000). He is currently represented by Fay Gold Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. Achy Obejas: Achy Obejas is a widely published poet, fiction writer, and journalist. She is the author of Memory Mambo (1996), We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (1994), and most recently Days of Awe (2001). In addition to her fiction work, Ms. Obejas is currently a cultural writer for the Chicago Tribune, and is a regular contributor to High Performance, Chicago Reader, and Windy City Times, among other publications. Her reporting, essays, and criticisms have also appeared in Vogue, The Nation, Playboy, and many other publications. She has also won numerous awards including a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lectures internationally and has taught at the University of Chicago among other Chicago-area colleges. She was born in Havana in 1956 and came to the U.S. by boat as an exile six years later. She has a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. Achy Obejas is the lead translator for the book. Louis A. Pérez Jr.: Louis A. Pérez Jr. is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Pérez received his B.A. degree from Pace College in New York (1965) and completed his graduate work at the University of Arizona (M.A., 1966) and the University of New Mexico (Ph.D., 1970). He has previously served as Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of South Florida and Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Pérez has written and edited fifteen books on Cuba including Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (2nd ed., 1995), Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy (2nd ed., 1997), On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture (1999), and most recently, Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba (2001). His articles have appeared in the principal journals of the profession, including the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, the Hispanic American Historical Review, and the Journal of Latin American Studies. He is currently the series editor of "Envisioning Cuba" at the University of North Carolina Press. Dr. Pérez has received grants and/or fellowships from the Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has also served on the Latin American Studies Association Task Force on Scholarly Relations with Cuba and the National Council on United States-Cuban Relations. Louis A. Pérez Jr. is the lead writer for Cuba: Picturing Change. University of New Mexico Press: UNM Press in Albuquerque, NM, is the publisher of Cuba: Picturing Change. Melissa Tandysh created the book's design and composition. Sung In Printing: Sung In Printing Company, Seoul, Korea, printed and bound Cuba: Picturing Change.