Pain.
Douleur.
Dolor.
Doulè.

In Cuba and Haiti, the cliché, ‘salvase el que pueda’ makes perfect sense: ‘Every man for himself.’ Two nations with vastly different historical paths are home to a population that shares a familiar route. Dolor desesperado. Hopeless pain.

— From the essay “Moving Through” by Nancy San Martin

Photography

Top: Carl Juste, Crushed, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Bottom: Marice Cohn Band, Un Beso, Havana, Cuba