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Spiderweb of Electric Wires

As these images demonstrate, the organization of Cuba’s residential system of electricity is not just poorly maintained but shockingly haphazard in its organization. Wires run every which way as Cubans share meters and illegally erected apartments in order to avoid paying the government for electrical service that is both over-priced and famously irregular—or often non-existent.  October 2011. Photographed by Matt Joseph.