Every voyage is both an adventure and an escape, there used to be many now there are just a few. By law the bulk of fish caught in Cuban waters must be handed to the state for distribution amongst the people. However, some of the poorest in Havana are brave enough to provide for their families by venturing out to sea using nothing more than the inner tubes from trucks and tractors as makeshift fishing Balseros rafts; The same rafts that were used to escape the Island in the 1980's.
Sarah Louise Ramsay is an award winning Photographer and Image Maker.
Sarah started her career in the 90's assisting in studios and on location.
The award-winning personal projects she created back then were the catalysts for her first advertising commissions, and since those days her work as a photographer has taken her all over the world.
She has spent years precariously leaning out of cars whilst shooting other vehicles, climbed dunes in Australia for British Airways and had a camera smashed out of her hand by a rearing horse at the San Juan Festival in Minorca.
She sometimes describes her
Awards 2023-AOP 38th Awards-Finalist-Documentary Series & Portrait Series
2023-IPA-Official Selection
2023-IPA-Editorial/Press photo essay/Feature story-Honorable mention
2023-IPA-Deeper prospective-Honorable mention
2021-IPA-Advertising -Self Promotion- 3RD PLACE
2021-IPA-Advertising -Self Promotion- Honorable mention
2021-IPA-Deeper prospective-Honorable mention
2021-Royal Academy-Summer Exhibition
