Marta Maria Perez Bravo is a revolutionary photographer from Havana, Cuba. Her work is dramatic, provocative and thoughtful. She draws inspiration from the Santeria religion that is central to Cuba. This religion is similar to Catholicism in some ways but also believes that the divine exists in all places. Her work often alludes to this sense of the divine and her role as a woman. Motherhood and femininity is also a huge theme in her work. She is the subject of most of her work and she is generally pictured nude or covered in a white sheet and her face is not often seen. She uses her body as a canvas to paint or attach objects that represent African Religious symbols. Many of her portraits are also about motherhood and the struggles she went through to conceive her twins.
