The Latin Colour portfolio consists of several hundred photographs made in various parts of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe. Their subject is largely traditionally painted architecture, often in a state of disrepair or decay. Within the portfolio there are subsidiary comparisons to be drawn; the most obvious of which is the stark contrast between the complex patina of aged paintwork and the stark ice-cream shades of repainted or restored buildings. The opportunity to make photographs like this is disappearing rapidly. On a recent revisit to Cuba I was unable to re-photograph any of my twelve most satisfying images from my first visit in 2001. The buildings have been restored, repainted, or demolished. Decades or maybe centuries of patina and flaking layers (I’ve been able to count up to twenty different coats of paint on some buildings) are covered heavily with a plasticized layer of gaudy modern paint colours which simply don’t weather and flake in a few short years like their predecessors. They will never be seen again.