Caribbean

Living in Miami puts the Caribbean on my doorstep, and over the years these islands have become as familiar to me as home. Some of these galleries come from long, repeated visits. Between 2009 and 2014 I made six trips to Haiti, mostly to the village of Maniche in the south, and in 2014 I went back with a team of Haitian nurses from Miami on a medical mission. Havana is another place I keep returning to, with galleries from 2017, 2024 and 2025: the classic cars around El Capitolio, the crumbling colonial streets of Old Havana, and the life that plays out in doorways and on balconies. In San Juan, over two long weekends, it was the blue cobblestones of Old San Juan, the murals of Santurce and the houses of La Perla stacked above the sea.

Other galleries come from shorter stops, often a few hours off a cruise ship with a camera: the Fish Fry at Arawak Cay and the signs of downtown Nassau, Bimini just fifty miles from Miami, the beaches of West Bay in Roatan, rainy streets in George Town, Grand Cayman, and the hanging umbrellas of Puerto Plata. More recent cruises added Charlotte Amalie in St. Thomas, Basseterre in St. Kitts, Philipsburg in St. Maarten, Castries in St. Lucia, Bridgetown in Barbados, Kralendijk in Bonaire, Trinidad and Tobago, and Belize City on the mainland. Across all twenty galleries I’m after the same thing I look for in Miami: everyday life in good light, people going about their day, and the color that seems to come with island living. For farther afield, see the Travel galleries.