Carl-Philippe Juste

Carl-Philippe Juste is the founder of IPC ArtSpace, Director of Iris PhotoCollective and curator of over seventy projects. He is Senior Photojournalist, Miami Herald; and the CEO of the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance. Under the threat of persecution, Haitian-born Carl–Philippe Juste and his politically active family were forced to flee their homeland in 1965, eventually settling in Miami’s Haitian community. Over the course of his career, he has won countless awards as a photojournalist. Juste has covered national and international stories for the Herald, including assignments in Haiti, Cuba, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. As part of his ongoing independent work, in 1998, Juste co-founded Iris PhotoCollective. In 2016, Juste won a prestigious Knight Arts Challenge grant to complete Havana, Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community, a book and exhibit of photographs and essays about Cubans’ and Haitians’ lives and shared humanity.  The book is forthcoming from Akashi Press in 2025. Carl opened IPC ArtSpace in 2019 to further engage the public with the arts, and in 2019 and 2021 he won the “The Ellies,” an award from Oolite Arts. Over the past several years, Juste has curated several exhibitions funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Perez Family Foundation, the Green Family Foundation, the Miami-Dade Office of Cultural Affairs and Florida Humanities. He has been interviewed by news outlets around the world, about his artistic practice as well as his community leadership. He continues to be a beacon of hope in his community.

Juste is the Founder and Director of Visual Journalism for FIU’s iWitness: IPC Institute for Visual Journalism. He oversees visual journalistic projects on topics including immigration and climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean and global diasporas. The Institute is building a think tank, curriculum, archive and public-facing activations.