Skip to main content

Photographers and viewers explore Cuba for first time in documentary series

Through The Lens: CUBA - Official Trailer
Adorama’s popular video series Through The Lens is embarking on two firsts for the fourth season, taking a look at largely unexplored areas of Cuba from the lens of photographers with the Sony Alpha Imaging Collective. Season 4 of Through The Lens offers a behind-the-scenes look at the work of photographers traveling through Cuba for the first time.

The latest season of the documentary series premiered Friday, May 12 on the company’s YouTube channel, AdoramaTV. The fourth season is the first to follow photographers who aren’t shooting in their own stomping grounds. In the series, both the photographers and many of the show’s viewers will be seeing Cuban culture for the first time, AdoramaTV says.

“As soon as the Cuba travel embargo was lifted, we knew it was the perfect opportunity to go and document everything we could about Cuba, especially the people and culture,” said Alana Casner, director of AdoramaTV. “We set out to create a docu-series about Cuba unlike anything we’ve yet seen online, and we feel we’ve accomplished that with TTL Cuba.”

Unlike earlier seasons, the fourth installment in the series is also the first to focus on a particular camera brand, working with Sony photographers including Dave Krugmen, Steven Irby, Paola Franqui, Sara Dietschy, Oveck Reyes, and Andy To. Besides just the photographers featured in the show, a majority of the documentary was also filmed with a Sony a7s II.

The documentary joins earlier seasons focused on Manhattan (season 1) , coast-to-coast U.S. (season 2) and Japan and Hong Kong (season 3). New viewers can still catch up on earlier seasons at AdoramaTV. After launching in 2010, AdoramaTV now has over half a million subscribers with over 64 million views.

New episodes launch through AdoramaTV with on demand availability. For the latest season, a new episode is released every Friday at 12 p.m. ET.

Hillary K. Grigonis
Hillary never planned on becoming a photographer—and then she was handed a camera at her first writing job and she's been…
Astronauts to give free astrophotography master class this week
Star trails above Earth.

NASA astronaut and current International Space Station inhabitant Matthew Dominick has been sharing lots of cool photos and videos of inside and outside the orbital outpost with his followers on X (formerly Twitter).

How, Dominick has just revealed that he's about to team up with fellow NASA astronaut and photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit to chat about astrophotography in low-Earth orbit.

Read more
How to get Photoshop for free

Getting Photoshop for free isn't as easy as it once was, but there are still a couple of techniques worth trying if you need to use Photoshop and don't have the funds for a subscription. There are also some great free alternatives worth considering if you can get away with editing photos or pictures in another application.

Here's how to get Photoshop for free, and some good alternatives.

Read more
The Insta360 action camera is on sale for a limited time
The Insta360 X3 with accessories on a picnic table.

Remember when GoPro cameras were all the rage? Believe it or not, the fanfare never truly died. In fact, GoPro’s very existence has inspired numerous other action cam companies to try their own hand at the technology, which brings us to the focus of today’s deal.

We’re shining a light on Insta360, a very cool action cam brand that hit the market a few years back. The deal we’ll be discussing is for the Insta360 X3, which normally sells for $400 at Best Buy. This week only, you’ll be able to score the camera for $350. Why not put that extra $50 toward one of several other Best Buy deals we discovered this week?

Read more