Street photography can express the symbolic mood of a street as much as its activity, as it does here. Among the residents of this neighborhood in Miami are refugees that fled Castro’s Cuba and settled here more than 50 years ago. Little Havana has become the best-known neighborhood for Cuban exiles in the world. Today, these Cuban refugees and their descendants make up about 60 per cent of Little Havana’s population. The other 40 percent have migrated from Nicaragua, Honduras and other Central American countries. Many know little of US history, and this “Cafeteria” uses its wall to display the historical origins of political freedom in the United States. The late afternoon light brings out the vivid colors of the building itself, the blue stools set up for outdoor dining, and the colorful folk art illustrations that accompany these history lessons. I waited for a man to cross my path -- he is not the subject of the picture, but does provide an important foreground figure to draw the eye into this layered image.