Cuba

The dancers in the following photographs are members of Cuba’s elite dance groups as identified individually.

They walk the streets, arm in arm with friends, sitting on the walls that line the Malecon and the Prado, talking, laughing, dancing. They appear to be at peace with the conditions in which they live. Maybe it's that they have adjusted to their realities and have moved on, to create lives for themselves, the richness of which is dependent on relationships with friends and family. With the influx of American tourists, the young men and women are increasingly becoming aware of what they do not have. They don't realize they already have what we Americans have lost.

One of the main attractions for North Americans is the ubiquitous presence of the 1950ish American cars.

Rural Cuba really takes you back to the ’40s and earlier. It’s a relaxed life centered around friends and family. We visited a tobacco farm where workers, mostly women, dry and roll those famous Havana Cigars. Eastern Cuba, the Oriente, where the Castro brothers were born and where the revolution began, is much different than [...]