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  • As suggested by this streetscape in Old Havana (the old city harbor) vintage vehicles are a regular mode of transportation throughout Cuba. Since 1962, the U.S. trade blockade has effectively prevented any new cars from arriving. But even though a few auto dealers in Europe and Russia are willing to defy the blockade and the attendant U.S. sanctions, not many Cubans have the money to buy new vehicles. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 99).
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  • Young couples at sunset on the sea wall bordering the port (Malecón) in old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Children walk to school under colonial archways, and past fifties-era American cars, in downtown Havana, Cuba.
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  • Laundry drying on balconies in downtown Old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Crumbling (and slowly renovating) Old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Museum of the Revolution, Havana, Cuba. (Museo de la Revolución).
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  • "Revolucion" painted on a wall surrounding some crumbling buildings in Havana, Cuba.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa and her mother Eulina Costa Allouis, compare their respective photos from their traditional 15th birthday parties; a special coming-of-age party for young women called a Quinceañera, or 15th Birthday.
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  • Euripedes Costa watches television during a rare peaceful moment when his grandchildren are not running through the house or playing their music loudly. Marianao district of Havana, Cuba. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001. The Costa family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • A young girl in dress up clothes and sun hat has a cold drink at a hotel bar in old Havana, Cuba.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001. The Costa family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • The old section of Havana, Cuba (called Old Havana). The district along the harbor is called the Malecon. The Hotel Nacional is the large structure to the left near the beach (with two cupolas). Material World Project.
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  • The old section of Havana, Cuba (called Old Havana). The district along the harbor is called the Malecon. Material World Project.
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  • Palacio de Matrimonio (Marriage registry) in Havana, Cuba. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 104-105.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Costa grandsons, Javier (right) and Ariel, exercise daily on the roof of the family home in Havana, Cuba. Behind them are a blackboard with math homework and cages for the family's pigeons. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After sunset, Sandra Raymond Mundi's niece Iris celebrates her Quinceañera, the traditional coming-of-age party for girls. Here flanked by her mother and father (recently divorced) she is about to cut her cake in front of a hundred friends and relatives. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • All along the city beach, Cubans (like these men on the Malecon, the Old Havana seawall) spend their off hours fishing, both for fun and to supplement their meager food rations. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 105).
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  • With a friend, the Costa grandsons, Javier (with snorkel) and Ariel (prone), spend the day fishing with snorkels and spear guns at the Havana shore, ten minutes by bike from home. Ariel cleans the catch while cousin Javier and a friend put their gear down on the rocks. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 104).
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  • Buyers wait for their meat purchases in the Agromercado open agricultural market. A sign of the government's willingness to experiment with modest levels of free enterprise in the 1990s, the markets may not exist for much longer. In 2004 and 2005, Castro reined back the number of farmers allowed to work for themselves, stopped issuing many types of licenses for self-employment, and eliminated all traffic in U.S. dollars. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 103).
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  • With Sandra Raymond Mundi carefully watching, a vendor measures out cornmeal mush in the Agromercado 19 y 78 open market in Havana's Marianao district. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 102).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED) Cuban families receive ration cards that in theory let them obtain all their food staples at astonishingly low, state-subsidized prices. In practice, the cards don't quite cover everything, so Cubans must venture into the vastly more expensive agromercados, open markets that sell products from the few government-sanctioned private farms and surpluses from cooperative farms that have fulfilled their state quotas. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 102).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In a rare moment, when not surrounded by the in-laws and cousins with whom they share a Colonial-era house, the Costa family: Ramon Costa Allouis, Sandra Raymond Mundi, and their children Lisandra, and Fabio, in the courtyard of their extended family's home in Havana, Cuba with one week's worth of food. The Costa family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 96)
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  • Sunset in old Havana, Cuba.
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  • El Castillo del Morro lighthouse, in the port of old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Nineteen-fifties American car in old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Colonial architecture in old Havana, Cuba.
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  • A view of old Havana and central Havana, with the national capitol uppermost in the image. Havana, Cuba.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses for a portrait with her parents Montecristi Garcia and Eulina Costa at her fifteenth birthday party. The Quinceañera, is the traditional coming-of-age party for 15-year-old girls in Cuba, and other Spanish speaking countries. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa is toasted during her Quinceañera, or 15th Birthday, by her friends and parents (Montecristi Garcia, center left, and Eulina Costa, center right. The Quinceañera is the traditional coming-of-age party for 15-year-old girls in Cuba, and other Spanish speaking countries. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses for photographs at La Maison?a location often used in Cuba for a girls' Quinceañera, the traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party. Revisit of Material World project 2001.
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  • Eulina Costa Allouis has turned the front room of her small apartment into a beauty parlor. Originally, she did the business on the roof of their home, out of sight from prying government eyes as no one was supposed to have a private business. Restrictions are less rigorous these days. Marianao district, Cuba. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Ramon Costa and Sandra Raymond and their teenaged daughter, Lisandra, and 6-year-old son Favio eat dinner in the narrow 2-story makeshift apartment behind Ramon's father's house in the Marianao district of Havana. They are eating a dinner of rice and beans, French-fried malanga, salad, fresh orange juice, and bananas. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • San Juan, Puerto Rico with El Morro castle seen through the palm trees. El Morro is a San Juan National Historic Site declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations in 1983.
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  • The Costa Family outside their home with all of their possessions, Havana, Cuba. Published in the book Material World, pages 106-107. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • A couple is married at the Palacio de Matrimonio (Marriage registry) in Havana, Cuba. Material World Project.
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  • A couple is married at the Palacio de Matrimonio (Marriage registry) in Havana, Cuba. Material World Project.
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  • The old section of Havana, Cuba (called Old Havana). The district along the harbor is called the Malecon. Material World Project.
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  • The Costa Family outside their home with all of their possessions, Havana, Cuba. Published in the book Material World, pages 106-107.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Surrounded by the in-laws and cousins with whom they share a Colonial-era house, the Costa family: Ramon Costa Allouis, Sandra Raymond Mundi, and their children Lisandra, and Fabio, in the courtyard of their extended family's home in Havana, Cuba. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Dinner at the Costa home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Costa family of Havana, Cuba, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Iris (Sandra's niece), who has just celebrated her Quinceañera, the traditional coming-of-age party for girls, compares her photos with her mother's quinceañera photos at the kitchen table of their Havana, Cuba home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • After sunset, Sandra Raymond Mundi's niece Iris celebrates her Quinceañera, the traditional coming-of-age party for girls. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 101).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Looking forward to the night's party, Sandra Raymond Mundi sorts through rice, looking for debris before making congrí. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 100).
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  • Old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses at one of the myriad locations a photographer takes her for her fifteenth birthday photo shoot. The traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party for young girls is called a Quinceañera. The Costa's live in the Marianao district of Havana, Cuba.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa steals a nap after her fifteenth birthday photo shoot in various locations around Old Havana. The traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party and whirlwind of activities for young girls is called a Quinceañera. The Costa's live in the Marianao district of Havana, Cuba.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Stage show at the Tropicana Nightclub, Havana, Cuba.
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  • High-rise public apartment building in Havana, Cuba. Material World Project.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED) Sandra Raymond Mundi peels vegetables for dinner in the outdoor courtyard kitchen area of their home in Havana, Cuba. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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