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”¡NO HAY MÁS NA’!” (There’s Nothing Left, 2022–24)
¡No hay más na’! shines a light on a Cuba hidden from the tourist gaze. Far removed from romantic portrayals of a tropical Caribbean island bathed in revolutionary chic, Kent’s photographs depict marginalised Cubans struggling to put food on the table and keep their heads above water.
Discover more work from this project on Instagram here.
Press
Faces of joy and despair in Portrait of Humanity award shortlist (The Times, June 2024)
Cuba: City, Coast & Countryside (Leica Camera Blog, May 2024)
Born fighting: from the streets of Cuba to the boxing ring (The Times, April 2024)
Photographers flock to a black and white world (The Times, December 2023)
A striking portrait of Cuba’s fading revolution (Huck, October 2023)
Havana in the Shadows (Leica Camera Blog, August 2023)
Record numbers of people are leaving Cuba amid most severe economic crisis since the 1990s hits – a photo essay (The Independent, March 2023)
Cuba: why record numbers of people are leaving as the most severe economic crisis since the 1990s hits – a photo essay(The Conversation, February 2023)
Cuba sufre el mayor éxodo ante su peor crisis desde el colapso de la URSS (The Conversation – Spain, February 2023)
Work from this project has also featured in Photo Vogue.
Awards
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024 [Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery]
British Photography Awards 2024 [Shortlist]
British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Humanity Vol. 6 [Shortlist]
reFocus Black and White Contest [Gold]
Exhibitions
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023
Books
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024 — order now
Public talks
Talk Photo! – with James Clifford Kent, Oriel Colwyn, North Wales, 26 August 2024
The Cuban Revolution, The Revolutionary Caribbean, Eccles Centre, British Library, 28 October 2023
”¡No hay más na’!”: Visual narratives of survival in crisis-hit Cuba, Society for Caribbean Studies Society for Caribbean Studies annual conference conference, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University, 5-7 July 2023
With thanks to Leica UK for their support with this project.
THERE'S NOTHING LEFT
Photographer James Clifford Kent has been chronicling life in Cuba for the past two decades. Since 2022, he has documented an island struggling in the midst of a deep economic crisis. His ongoing longform project ¡No hay más na’! (there’s nothing left) captures ordinary people living on the margins of society.
Jesús, Havana, Cuba
Cary & Axiuli, Havana, Cuba
The island’s harshest economic conditions since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s have induced desperation and the exodus of many Cubans. Widespread shortages, frequent power outages and soaring inflation have fuelled growing hopelessness. Numbers abandoning the island for the United States have rocketed in recent years, with a mass migration of approximately one million people since 2022.
Girl in an albergue, Havana, Cuba
¡No hay más na’! shines a light on a Cuba hidden from the tourist gaze. Far removed from romantic portrayals of a tropical Caribbean island bathed in revolutionary chic, Kent’s photographs depict marginalised Cubans struggling to put food on the table and keep their heads above water.
Discover more work from this award-winning project on Instagram here.
PUBLICATIONS
”¡No hay más na’!”: Visual Narratives of Survival in Crisis-hit Cuba (Wasafiri, Winter 2025)
Faces of joy and despair in Portrait of Humanity award shortlist (The Times, June 2024)
Cuba: City, Coast & Countryside (Leica Camera Blog, May 2024)
Born fighting: from the streets of Cuba to the boxing ring (The Times, April 2024)
Photographers flock to a black and white world (The Times, December 2023)
A striking portrait of Cuba’s fading revolution (Huck, October 2023)
Havana in the Shadows (Leica Camera Blog, August 2023)
Record numbers of people are leaving Cuba amid most severe economic crisis since the 1990s hits – a photo essay (The Independent, March 2023)
Cuba: why record numbers of people are leaving as the most severe economic crisis since the 1990s hits – a photo essay (The Conversation, February 2023)
Cuba sufre el mayor éxodo ante su peor crisis desde el colapso de la URSS (The Conversation–Spain, February 2023)
Work from this project has also featured in Photo Vogue.
AWARDS
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024 (Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery)
British Photography Awards 2024 (Documentary, Shortlist)
British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Humanity Vol. 6 (Shortlist)
reFocus Black and White Contest (People, Gold)
EXHIBITIONS
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023
BOOKS
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024
PUBLIC TALKS
Talk Photo! – with James Clifford Kent, Oriel Colwyn, North Wales, 26 August 2024
The Cuban Revolution, The Revolutionary Caribbean, Eccles Centre, British Library, 28 October 2023
”¡No hay más na’!”: Visual narratives of survival in crisis-hit Cuba, Society for Caribbean Studies Society for Caribbean Studies annual conference conference, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University, 5-7 July 2023
With thanks to Leica UK for their support with this project.