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Mimi Dwyer

Mimi Dwyer is a New York-based reporter with Reuters. She has also contributed to the New Republic, Vice, Al Jazeera, and other outlets.

Ian Marcos Gutiérrez, a 23-year-old printer at the Taller Experimental de Gráfica, in Havana, helps the author prepare a block of lithographic limestone for printing.

Step Inside Cuba’s Oldest Printmaking Studio

At the Taller Experimental de Gráfica in Havana, process is everything