# Cuban legendary photographer Ivan Cañas dies at age 74 in Miami

**Date:** 01/01/2020

Iván Cañas, a renowned Cuban photographer, died on Sunday, December 29th due to "complications" from pneumonia after being admitted to the hospital just over a month ago.

Cañas, 74 years old, was taken to Hospital Kendall Regional Medical Center a month ago. Since then, his body was functioning at barely 20 percent of its capacity and had to be admitted to intensive care.

Cañas worked as a photojournalist for the Mexican News Agency (Notimex), and in the 1970s and 1980s he worked at Cuba Internacional magazine alongside journalists such as Eliseo Alberto Diego, Antonio Conte, Manuel Pereira, and Reinaldo Escobar.

In 2014 he presented the last of his 14 personal exhibitions, the show Lezama Inédito at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, in Mexico D.F.

"As you will see, in these photographs there is no apology for the system that prevails in Cuba, there is an apology to the Cuban people, who really are not to blame for what is happening in Cuba" he had stated.

On one occasion he said: "At least for me, thinking about the homeland is something that sometimes does me tremendous harm; other times I feel proud to be Cuban. On one hand admiration for the affections I had, and on the other hand, a sadness at seeing how things have been destroyed."