Havana-haiti : Havana Haiti | A Photographic Essay

Havana Haiti | A Photographic Essay

Havana, Haiti, Carl Juste, Pablo Martinez Monsivais, C.W. Griffin, Marice Cohn Band, Andre Chung, Clarence Williams III, Patrick Farrell, Charlie Trainor, Jr., Carol Guzy, Jeffrey Salter, Les Stone, Carlos Moore, Edwidge Danticat, John Yearwood, Damarys Ocana, Bea Garcia, Michael Ottey, Kelly Johnson, Joe Ogelsby, Yves Colon, Sonji Jacobs Dade, Ana Menendez, Jacqueline Charles, Dorothy Willis, Carlos Eire, Fabiola Santiago, Fernando Gonzalez, Richard Blanco, Cheryl Little, Luis Rios, Lissette Mendez, Marlene Lopez

Cubans and Haitians have flooded into Florida for generations, creating in Miami their eponymous neighborhoods: Little Havana and Little Haiti. Unfortunately, Cubans and Haitians haven’t often come together harmoniously. Photojournalist Carl-Philipe Juste, born in Haiti to parents with Cuban roots, has always known that Haitian and Cuban cultures have more in common than most people understand. “Havana, Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community,“ brings together dozens of photographs and essays to find, not just the places where Cubans and Haitians chafe against each other and American immigration and foreign policy, but where they layer each upon the other, transcending differences. The works cover 14 themes, including religion, labor, love, hope, joy and hunger, and together tell one story — how Cubans and Haitians are the same.