This visual archive was created as a part of the research project CUBAFLUX, funded by the Kone Foundation and conducted by the John Morton Center for North American Studies. The images were taken by scholars with no prior experience or training in photography, and they were initially shot to be used only as research materials. During the course of the research it occurred to us that perhaps the archive of our images could be used for educational purposes. 

We hope the archive will be used as a tool for learning, whose purpose is not to offer any singular interpretations of the images, but—rather—to showcase the complexity of fieldwork research and visuality as a tool for scholarship.  In particular, we envisioned that the archive might serve the purposes of coursework with a visual studies component as well as broader methodological and theoretical discussions beyond any disciplinary boundaries.