Journey Latin America Image Editor Tom Parrott investigates the story behind the most famous photograph ever taken.
Which is the most famous photograph in the world?
Some may say it's Robert Doisneau’s snap of two lovers kissing in an embrace on the streets of 1950s Paris, or the capturing of Jack Ruby infamously shooting Lee Harvey Oswald outside a Dallas Police station. Maybe Joe Rosenthal’s iconic picture of American Marines raising the...
Tour leader Bill Hill gives an insight into some of the planning – and Cuban idiosynchracy – that goes into the run-up to leading our Tocororo tour.
Touchdown in Havana’s Jose Marti airport was bang on schedule. Who says everything’s
maƱana in Cuba? The buzz of arriving shrouded me in a sense of both privilege and awe, mixed with the usual apprehension over the ever-present potential for bureaucracy. Luckily the short walk to passport control gave way to a relatively quick check of the passport, a “look at camera”, which is about as biometric as it gets here, and a feeling of achievement as I pushed through the door into Cuba. Well, not quite...