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Isabel Sierra (born 01 January 1958 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist. Born in Cuba, of Spanish parents, in 1958. Isabel soon received the influence of her grandfather who worked as a photographic lab assistant for the newspaper El Diario de la Marina. Sierra produced Chinatown in 1987, a photo-essay about an immigrant Chinese area in Havana. This portfolio of 22 images was selected finalist in the Photographic Prize Casa de las Americas, (Havana), where it is part of the institution’s permanent collection. Isabel won the Nationwide Photographic Award 13 de Marzo in 1987. Sierra settled in Miami in 1998 and is still working in her main subject, her issues with migration processes and identity. She has earned a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Florida International University. Her works have been exhibited in the United States, Denmark, Spain, Venezuela, Italy, and Cuba. She is the Director of the Cuban American Phototheque Foundation in Miami.