Boxing Sisters: These powerful portraits depict Cuba’s teen fighters

Namibia Flores Rodriguez is a Cuban boxing champion – a fact widely known, though she’s never officially competed for her country. Raised in Havana, she turned to the sport after a difficult childhood, and it became her lifeblood. “Boxing is my everything,” she tells Dazed. “It’s like a church where I can find peace with myself. It gives me wisdom and strategies to face every obstacle life has put in my way. I’m a better person today because of it.” 

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