Imagery from 2002, 2011, and 2016.

Restaurant La Guarida 

Callejon de Hamel

Ernesto Sanchez Valdes, filmaker 

I met Yoel in 2002, when he was 11 and have photographed him each time I’ve returned. I always stay with the same family, and he lives in the building next door. This makes him easy to find most of the time. In the past five years or so he has had internet once and a while and I have received a handful of emails. I have not heard back from him in the past couple of years which makes me worry. For a country as closed off from the outside world, my worry may or may not be warranted.

Papo's pigeons