back next Cubans in Exile Cuban Americans are uniquely different from the larger population of immigrants to the United States and different from each other in many ways. The differences in thinking about their lives as exiles from Fidel Castro's regime depends on their generation, socio-economic and geographical location and/or time away from their homeland. Some Cuban Americans spend their entire lives planning for a return to Cuba that never comes. Others pine away for a Cuba that only exists on Calle Ocho in Miami - in reality this way of life full of cuban pastries and Guanabana shakes is a faint shadow in the lives of Cubans living on the Island today. Others have embraced their lives here in the States and have no desire to ever return. Still others, usually the younger generation - those that immigrated as young children or were born in the United States to Cuban parents, share a curiosity and in some cases, an admiration for Cuba, its dictator and revolutionary ideals. This group of Cuban Americans can only understand the tremendous loss of country and family through the eyes of their parents and extended family members that lived a very different life a mere 90 miles off the coast of Key West. This project explores the diversity of experience, personality and relation to homeland among Cuban Americans in the States. Photographs published by Nueva Luz, New York. Click to book photographer and/or find out more about Cubans in Exile project.