Leysis Quesada Vera: Cuba During the Pandemic
Leysis Quesada Vera
Photographer Leysis Quesada Vera describes life during the pandemic in Havana’s Los Sitios neighborhood, where she is raising two children and hasn’t had any income for a year.
Produced with support from the Henry Luce Foundation for a Magnum Foundation initiative to document the global health crisis through a variety of perspectives.
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“The best pictures are still in my mind. I saw really amazing pictures, but the people, they were looking at me with faces that said, ‘Please don’t do that’. Sometimes I’d see people in tears.”