When I was in Rome I came across a small exhibition trying to promote Che Guevara's photographic work. There's very little of it online, and none published in any books that I can find.
The exhibition was interesting because it presented you with a different, more human side to the revolutionary, whose image has been repeated continually for commercial purposes. His portrait is used on merchandise across the globe; t-shirts, mugs, towels, key rings, and more, so much so that the image has lost it's meaning, becoming more myth and narrative than a real slice of history.
The photos strip away that image, presenting what he saw, the people he met and the family he was part of. The fact that he was a major figure in 20th century history seems almost insignificant, just that he was a person living at that particular moment in time.
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