"¡No hay más na'!" (There's Nothing Left, 2022-2024)

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.

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.

¡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.

Photographer James Clifford Kent has spent the last 20 years documenting life in Cuba, and since 2022, his work has focused on the harsh realities of an island in deep economic crisis. His ongoing project "¡No hay más na’!" (meaning: "there's nothing left") captures the lives of everyday Cubans struggling with shortages, power outages, and soaring inflation. As many people leave Cuba due to these tough conditions, Kent's photos show a side of the island rarely seen by tourists—one of hardship and survival, far from the romanticised images often associated with Cuba.