A selection of images from “A gum a pencil a penny”, an exploration of Cuba by photographer Lai Gutiérrez. She describes the work as “an honest approach to the characteristics of a complex identity, where the yearning for freedom and hope contrasts with constantly changing wounds and gaps.”











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