Photo Gallery: Portraits of Cuba - Medill Reports Chicago

Cuba 2018, Winter 2018

Photo Gallery: Portraits of Cuba

April 17, 2018

By Giulia Petroni
Medill Reports

From Havana to Matanzas: away from 1950s Cadillacs and souvenirs of Che, these are the people we met, the streets we walked.

Flowers and pois, Old Havana. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Man collecting cans, Old Havana. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Man counting money, Old Havana. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Woman on stilts, Old Havana. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Window, Old Havana.(Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Antigua Casa de Justiz y Santa Ana, Old Havana. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Man painting, Old Havana.(Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Man leaning on a boat, Old Havana.(Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Clothes hanging on a balcony, Vedado. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Checking on the elections, Hotel Nacional de Cuba. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Walking to school, Vedado. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Window, Marianao. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

House, Marianao. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Little girl walking in Marianao. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Young man looking at his phone, Marianao. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Clothes hung to dry, Marianao. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Woman standing at her house’s entrance, Marianao. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Little kids in Marianao.(Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Little kid carrying his bike, Marianao. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Horse looking for food, Marianao. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Plastic bottles, Cojímar. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Bottles to deter bugs, Cojímar. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Cat, Cojímar. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Coffee seeds, Cojímar.(Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Coffee seeds part 2, Cojímar. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Red truck, Cojímar.(Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Santero Cubano, Matanzas. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Human heart, Matanzas. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL)

Photo at top: Havana, Cuba. (Giulia Petroni/MEDILL).