Iris PhotoCollective

Children of the Revolution presents an evocative body of work by Miami-based photographer Marice Cohn Band, whose lens captures the humanity and complexity of Cuban life through the gaze of its youngest generation. Created during her time in Cuba, these photographs offer more than documentary evidence—they serve as quiet meditations on resilience, identity, and the persistence of hope amid constraint. Her photographs reveal not only what is visible, but what quietly lingers beneath the surface.

Cohn Band’s images reveal the intimate rhythms of daily life: children playing in streets lined with the faded symbols of revolution, students walking beneath murals proclaiming slogans of endurance, families gathering in modest spaces filled with tenderness and resolve. Each photograph is a study in contrasts—the innocence of youth set against the weight of history; the vibrancy of life illuminated within the muted tones of endurance. Through her lens, the revolutionary promise and its lingering realities coexist, neither romanticized nor condemned, but seen with profound empathy and an unflinching sensitivity to truth and nuance.

Curated by Carl-Philippe Juste, the exhibition situates Cohn Band’s work within a broader discourse on the intergenerational echoes of political idealism. Juste underscores how the children in these images embody the living legacy of the Cuban Revolution: shaped by its values, constrained by its limitations, and yet quietly redefining its meaning through their own lives. His curatorial approach invites viewers to question what it means to inherit an ideology—and how that inheritance transforms when filtered through the eyes of youth.

Presented by IPC ArtSpace during Art Basel Miami, Children of the Revolution stands as both a visual chronicle and a meditation on the endurance of the human spirit. It challenges audiences to look beyond familiar narratives of Cuba and to recognize, within these children, a universal truth—the undiminished capacity for hope, creativity, and the search for self amidst the forces that seek to define us.

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Landed, an evocative photographic essay  by Steve Dozier that chronicles the  arrival of Haitian and Cuban migrants  in 1980s Miami—a pivotal chapter in history that remains relevant today. Fleeing violence and oppression, these individuals left their homes behind, embarking on harrowing journeys in search of freedom and a better life. Landed captures their struggles and aspirations, inviting viewers to reflect on the enduring quest for refuge and opportunity.

In the tumultuous 1980s, Miami transformed into a newly dynamic space as waves of refugees from the crumbling Soviet Union (refuseniks) arrived and as the rising cocaine crisis and civil unrest, marked by the McDuffie Uprising, spilled into the streets. Within this complex landscape, Haitian and Cuban immigrants forged their paths—one group fleeing the oppressive Duvalier regime, the other seeking asylum through the Mariel Boatlift; both found themselves caught in this fraught mix.

Yet, the promise of freedom inspired the striving of both groups of islanders. Cuban migrants were welcomed into the fold—“Welcome to the Orange Bowl”—and Haitians huddled together after being wrangled by the police on Miami Beach. From the policies of wet-foot/dry-foot, put in place to protect Cubans and briefly Haitians, to the Haitian Refugee Center (HRC) set up to help, Miami found space, however unequal, for these growing communities, no matter their skin tone. The tensions, though, were palpable.

While the “American Dream” is universally sought after, day-to-day life in Miami in the 1980s was anything but universal; Cubans and Haitians, by and large, lived very different lives upon arrival. This universality, though, has its place in the humanness of pain and suffering, hope and love, and on the faces of those who arrived, Cuban and Haitian alike. Landed gives us pause and challenges our assumptions about the elusive deferred fantasy.

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