Prostitution has traditionally been explained by the media with photography focusing only in one half of the business. If aliens came to earth and tried to understand what prostitution is about they would believe it is a business based on naked women staying in dirty rooms.
The series Gentleman´s club aims at giving visibility to that other 50%: the clients.
The project started in June 2015 in Rio de Janeiro and grew with chapters made in Paris and Bangkok. This episode points at Havana in Cuba, and focus at the local clientele due to the difficulties in reaching the sexual tourism environment controlled by pimps and confirmed as a public secret in resorts and restricted areas. Cubans were reluctant to admitting the existence of the industry and explained to me that men in the island had no need to pay for sex because everybody was always hot and they were all excellent lovers. Still, I walked the streets of Havana looking for prostitutes´ clients that would be willing to pose for me in exchange of money driven both by curiosity but also trying to invert the roles in the business, as the men who agreed were also selling a part of themselves.
All of them were asked about their experience, personal history and motivations and this information works as the captions of the images, but what remains a question is why they accepted the deal. Maybe just like the women who have been posing for years in front of photographers, they just needed the money.

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