Fernández participated in different art forms such as photography, sculpture, drawing and painting. He had a career as a photographer and was seen in several publications and projects. His work as a photojournalist was seen in Photo projects in Central and South America between 1955–1959. He was the art director ofVisión in New York City and was a photographer for Revolución newspaper, Havana, in 1960. Jesse Antonio Fernández is born in Havana,Cuba December 7, 1925. He settles in Asturias,Spain with his mother and brother Jaime to flee the dictatorship of Geraldo Machado in Cuba. Jesse said of this period: “we arrived to Spain where I learned how to fish, dance, sing. We lived of barter during the Civil war, in December 1936 wee returned to Cuba. On my arrival in Cuba, I was confronted with a cultural shock due to the language: I spoke with an Asturian accent and everyone started to call me the Galician. I had to brawl to acquire a certain respect. I am very Cuban. I then passed my youth between the rhythms of the danzón. In 1941 the Academy of the Art, San Alejandro of Havana. 1942 Leaves for Philadelphia to make studies of electronic engineer. “My parents sent me to the United States to study. They were Spanish republicans who believed in progress. I would have preferred to make literary studies. I began studies to become electronic engineer because I liked mathematics. ” 1945 Go back to Cuba, and devotes himself to painting. 1947 Of return to New York, registers with Art Students League where he studies painting with George Grosz and Preston Dickinson. By evoking this period, Jesse Fernández said: “During 17 years, I lived in New York. I lived with my wife,the books and the photographs. 1948 Meet the painter Wifredo Lam who presents it to the European painters living then in New York: Marcel Duchamp, Esteban Francés, Kiesler… “Rencontrer Duchamp had a major influence on me. He taught me that to be an artist, it was necessary to be free, and to be free, that one must not have responsibilities! ” 1949 Attend the meetings of Painters' Club on the eighth street In 1952 he travels to Medillin,Colombia. He starts to take photographs: “Colombia is a country for photography and in Medellin it became for me a form of contact with reality. It is there that I found my own technique. I did not know anything with the photograph, I did not even know what was a diaphragm. I was locked up then with tons of books. I am a purist and I was influenced by Cartier Bresson and Walker Evans. ” 1954 he works for one of largest the Colombian advertising agency, Propaganda Epoca, where he meets Fernando Botero and Gabriel Garcia Márquez.In 1955 travels the Amazonian area of El Atrato, studying archaeology and the ethnology. He meets the Indians Cuna and Katio. He remains in Guajira for four months, where He photographs the Indians. He goes back to New York, where it receives a price for these photographs. 1957 Takes part as a photographer in the filming of Nazarín de Luis Buñuel in Mexico.His photographs are published in Life, Esquire, Paris Match, Jours of France, Pagent, Cosmopolitan, Evergreen Review, Time Magazine, the daily newspapers The New York Times, Herald Tribune… In spite of important requests for his photographs,he feels always more than one photographer: “I was painter all my life. When I returned to the United States, I made photo-journalism. But I finished trying to take photographs of things which really did not interest me, like the war and it's tragedies. I thus returned to painting. Now, when I make photographs, I take from reality what I like and what I want. ” In 1958 he accepts the artistic position of director for Visión magazine. He travels to Ecuador,Mexico, Guatemala, Central America. In connection with his voyage to Mexico, he writes: “I wanted to meet Alfonso Reyes because I read his translations of the Greek and liked them very much. Carlos Fuentes brought me to Cuernavaca.He lived surrounded by books. The most beautiful library which I ever saw! ” In connection with Shine Buñuel, he also said to us: “I was going to see it. I wanted to know the version of the surrealism of Buñuel. While entering his place, I was immediately struck by a thing: there was only one table, the portrait of Buñuel painted by Dali. But he was accustomed to eating with his back to this painting. ” He would travel to Havana to see his family each year, according to Guillermo Infante, but this time he was on a mission for Life Magazine to make a report on the artistic life of the island. Jesse photographed writers, musicians, painters, sculptors and ballerinas on their native ground. Two masterpieces of photography were born: his portrait of Jose Lezama Lima, the best ever taken of the poet, and his portrait of Hemingway, an intense study of the Master of concise prose as he crossed the threshold of old age. He worked as a photographer at Revolución newspaper and its weekly magazine the Lunes of Revolución. In 1960 he goes back to New York and temporarily gives up photography to devote himself to painting. He teaches in School off Visual Arts. He lives in the “Village” and regularly meets Jorge Luis Borges, Aldous Huxley, Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Antonio Will know. “On my return to New York, I had changed and I decided to set out again from zero. At this point in time the first skulls appeared. I said to myself - I adore Cézanne, because he has a kind of ethics, of abnegation: if this man could paint three apples and he was able to make so many things with… and like that he set out with the skulls. And much of these skulls are landscapes. And I started again unceasingly. However, when you made something in great quantity, it is never done in the same manner. The day thus arrived where, with my direction, I had gotten rid of symbolism. It had just become a question of space. ” Exposure to Arcy Gallery of New York. 1968 Teach off painting in School Visual Arts of New York. 1969 Start to alternate its work in New York with stays with San Juan de Porto-Rico, in search of an environment more favorable to creation. At this period he writes like art critic in many publications of which San Juan Star, Opus International and Knowledge of Arts. 1971 Exposure to the gallery El Morro, San Juan (Puerto Rico). 1972 Expose its drawings to the museum of the University of San Juan (Puerto Rico). 1973 Exposure to the Alliance Fran1caise and the gallery Botello de San Juan (Puerto Rico). 1974-1976 During this period, he lives between Tolède, according to him the most beautiful city of the world, and Madrid. 1975 Take part in a collective exposure to Vienna, entitled “fantastic Realism in Spain”. 1976 Take part in Basel Art Fair 76. Exposure of its “boxes” to the Ynguanzo gallery of Madrid. Those are a synthesis symbolic system of individual associations, its personal reading of the history and universal culture. Exposure to the Large palace at the time of the FIAC 76. 1977 Marries Frances who supports enthusiastically his career. settles in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He travels to Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles. 1978 Exposure to the House of the Culture of Orleans. Carry out a report on the English artists: Francis Bacon, Henri Moore, Lynn Chadwick, John Pipern Kitaj… Travel to Italy, Sicily, to Turkey, Morocco, Thailand. 1979 Exposure of photographs “Fotografias 1955-1979” to the Center Venezuelan of the culture of Bogota (Colombia) and to the Chamber of commerce of Cali (Colombia). Take part in the exposure “One Jackson Pollock” to the American Arts centre of Paris. Take part in the exposure “Siete Años” to the Theo gallery of Madrid. 1980 Exposure of photographs to the American Arts centre of Madrid. Exposure of photographs to the Museum of Contemporary art of Caracas (Venezuela). Publication of the “Mummies of Palermo”. This book of photographs appears with an introduction of Dominique Fernandez: “In black and white, using the only natural light, which parsimoniously escapes from some ventilators, it is an incredible report which Jesse Fernandez carried out. In seizing images, poignant until the insupportable one sometimes, the expressive reality of these mummies seems to invite us to follow a funeral and imposing opera…” Exposure He passes away in Paris in March 13, 1986.