Positivity Magazine

  • Rory Stewart

POSITIVITY. A magazine project exploring uplifting news coming out of a variety of countries, to highlight the good that’s happening in the world. I looked at Cuba, a country that, in 2016, had opened up to the rest of the world, with a key moment being the Rolling Stones playing a free show in Havana, which brought in a crowd of over 500,000 people. While this subject formed the articles main story, I also explored a variety of smaller stories, ranging from new tourism clashing with old Cold-War laws, the imprisonment of a notorious local graffiti artist, and the documentation of local dance groups, along side the “Carneval de Santiago de Cuba”