TAKE ME TO CUBA

Cuba: Take me to Cuba  

With 18 years in Cuba and 12 in the production world, Take me to Cuba tries to get beyond the typical image of Cuba with its old cars and old men playing guitar. Cuba is a young and vibrant country that is not too far away from stepping onto the international ladder.

There are a number of misconceptions that make clients discount Cuba and its great beaches, amazing cities, wonderful people, empty roads and no traffic jams. For instance: Americans are not welcome. Wrong!! Americans are very welcome and according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the US is the second largest issuer of tourist visas after Canada.

Take me to Cuba has completed many successful productions over the years, including a secret car campaign for Mercedes-Benz, Nivea, Olympus and Audi, but the company's strongest asset remains its fashion productions, be it advertising, editorial or catalogue. 

Cuba: TAKE ME TO CUBA  

Take me to Cuba is a photo production service established in 1999. Next to customs handling and work visas, the company organises castings of all sizes using the incredible variety of people available on the island. From European to Asian and Afro-American, Cuba has it all.

German photographer Achim Lippoth recently finished a study of boxing kids in Havana's oldest and most prestigious boxing gym that can be seen in the current edition of Kid's Wear. Other stories were shot by French-Romanian photographer Adrian Parfene for German MAXI, and Italian leisurewear company Piazza pulled out all the stops during a shoot in Varadero and Havana.

Take me to Cuba thrives for thorough pre-production by providing location photos from a state-of-the-art location library boasting more than 40,000 hand-selected images. And don't forget: according to Cuban law, American citizens are very welcome in Cuba.

Havana: TAKE ME TO CUBA  

Take me to Cuba was founded in 1999 as a photo production service company by a mixed Cuban-German team. The idea was to attract European and North American* clients to benefit from the Island's famous year-round sunshine and the beauty of cities like Havana, the 'Pearl of the Caribbean'.

Take me to Cuba provides a complete range of services for advertising agencies, catalogue clients, fashion and car photographers, and their producers are fluent in Spanish, English, French and German. In the first place, however, they speak “Cuban”, which means managing the official Cuba by providing work visas and temporary importation permits for collections and camera equipment.

Despite its strong fashion orientation, Take me to Cuba has completed productions for clients including Nivea, Olympus, DuPont, Audi and Mercedes-Benz. Recent productions were carried out for JP Boden, wrap, Grazia, Piazza Italia and C&A.

*US citizens are very welcome in Cuba.

Cuba : 7 Seas Productions  

Cuba is much more than old cars, old Havana and old men... It is a young, striving island, with an interesting history and plans for a great future.

It is an ideal place to catch the Latin spirit and the colonial flair, with beautiful 40s and 50s Art Deco and classic colonial architecture sitting alongside modern facades in the capital city of Havana.

Extraordinary productions are feasible - with ad and press campaigns being recently photographed for Mercedes and AUDI, as well as various fashion shoots.

Cuban-based Take Me To Cuba explain what makes them different: "we know Cuba inside out, our production doors are open, our crews are great to work with, and we speak Spanish".

More details, including their European coordination office, at the website.