For the past three years, I have lived in and out of Cuba continuously shooting in an attempt to digest the absurd and complex beauty around me. The series “La Juventud" features Cuban artists, actors, painters and models that live and work in Havana, and who have never left the island. Collaborating directly with each artist, we have explored their desires, vulnerabilities, and fears through the concept of time on the island. Shooting mostly on film, a nod to the country’s own fragility, Cuba is a world that begins and ends with the ocean filled with a generation that yearns to be a part of the greater conversation. With elements of Surrealism and fantasy, I have attempted to capture a different side of the island far from the tourists and politics, instead focusing on this mass of floating land that provides limitless time to play, and to be.