Marta María Pérez Bravo

Marta María Pérez Bravo (b. 1959) initially studied painting in Havana at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts (1979) and the Instituto Superior de Arte (1984). Although she studied painting while at the Instituto Superior de Arte, she became interested in photography while working on her senior thesis at the latter, and has primarily used this medium since. She is best known for her black-and-white self-portraiture, in which she often uses her own body as the central subject-object to express her own belief in,and practice of, Afro-Cuban religions, particularly Santeria and Palo Monte.