CARTAGENA, Alejandro

About Mexican photographer, Alejandro CARTAGENA (b.1977, in Santa Domingo, Domenican Republic)

Alejandro CARTAGENA employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban, and environmental issues. His work has been published internationally in magazines and newspapers such as Newsweek, Nowness, Domus, the Financial Times, The New York Times, Le Monde, Stern, PDN, The New Yorker, and Wallpaper among others. He is also a self publisher and co-editor. Alejandro CARTAGENA lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico

Photo books by Alejandro CARTAGENA

  • ‚Espacios Habitables‘ (2005); ‚Identidad Nuevo León‘ (2006); ‚Suburbia Mexicana‘ (2011); ‚Carpoolers‘ (2014, 2015, 2019, 2021); ‚Headshots‘ (2015); ‚Before the War‘ (2015); ‚Rivers of Power‘ (2016); ‚Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US‘ (2016); ‚A Small Make Believe Neighborhood‘ (2017); ‚A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption‘ (2017); ‚Santa Barbara Shame on US‘ (2017); ‚Enrique, a Presidential Guide to Selfies’ (2018); ‚Los Sumergidos‘ (2019); ‚We Love Our Employees‘ (2019, 2022); ‚El Casting‘ (2020); ‚Built to Ruin: Between Invisibility and Suburbia‘ (2020); ‚A Small Guide to Homeownership‘ (2020); ‚Santa Barbara Save US‘ (2020); ‚Suburban Bus‘ (2021); ‚Carretera Nacional‘ (2021); ‚Insurrection Nation‘ (2021); ‚Car Show‘ (announced); ‚Lost Rivers‘ (announced); ‚RomaRoma‘ (announced); ‚Love and Politics Volumes I – VI ‚ (announced)

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CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US
CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US
In the context of 2016s attacks in the U.S. Alejandro CARTAGENA, the photographer of out-of-print book 'Santa Barbara return jobs back to US' seems to be a lonely shooter, eyeing up his next victim through a rifle-scope and move to its natural conclusion.
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CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Santa Barbara Shame on US - SIGNED COPY!
CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Santa Barbara Shame on US - SIGNED COPY!
The 2nd chapter of the 'Santa Barbara' trilogy - 'Santa Barbara Shame on US' - by Alejandro CARTAGENA on the social-political development of the USA, shows the current situation in the USA in an almost theatrical approach to show the core of the decline.
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CARTAGENA, Alejandro - A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption
CARTAGENA, Alejandro - A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption
'A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption' is the result of a long-term observation by Alejandro CARTAGENA of the right to public space. It shows how changes do not come from those affected themselves, but from investors interested in urban development.
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CARTAGENA, Alejandro - A Small Guide to Homeownership
CARTAGENA, Alejandro - A Small Guide to Homeownership
This photo volume by Alejandro CARTAGENA brings together his long-term project, in which he documented the suburbanization in Monterey (northern Mexico) and the changes - from urban planning to everyday challenges to the ecological consequences of growth.
50,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
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CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Carpoolers - 1ST PRINT RUN, AS SIGNED COPY!
CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Carpoolers - 1ST PRINT RUN, AS SIGNED COPY!
Self-published book 'Carpoolers' by Alejandro CARTAGENA draws attention to the sociological and economic aspects of the Mexican-American economy. We look from above directly onto the loading area of Mexican pickups that transport very different 'loads'.
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CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Suburban Bus
CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Suburban Bus
Photo book 'Suburban Bus' by Mexican photographer Alejandro CARTAGENA tells the story of people who want a better life in a city that lacks everything: decent roads, enough buses and safety on buses. It is shortlisted for the Paris PhotoBook Award 2021.
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CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Suburbia Mexicana
CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Suburbia Mexicana
In his out-of-print photo volume 'Suburbia Mexicana' Alejandro CARTAGENA documents the particularities of the suburbs of his hometown Monterrey, Mexico. Ultimately he documents the chaos and destruction that result from scant or misguided urban planning.
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CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Santa Barbara Save US
CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Santa Barbara Save US
This volume that finishes Alejandro CARTAGENA's 'Santa Barbara' photo book project is still drawing an uncertain future. From the beginning, his pictures channeled the fear of fire and the flames that charred scars leave behind. And what's next?
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Awards
  • Alejandro CARTAGENA has received several awards including the international Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award, the Street Photography Award in London Photo Festival, the Lente Latino Award in Chile, the Premio IILA-FotoGrafia Award in Rome and the Salon de la Fotografia of Fototeca de Nuevo Leon in Mexico among others.
    He has been named an International Discoveries of the FotoFest festival, a FOAM magazine TALENT and an Emerging photographer of PDN magazine.
    He has also been a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Award and has been nominated for the Santa Fe Photography Prize, the Prix Pictet Prize, the Photoespaña Descubrimientos Award and the FOAM Paul Huff Award.
Exhibitions

The work by Alejandro CARTAGENA has been exhibited internationally in more than fifty group and individual exhibitions in spaces including the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, and his work is in the collections of several museums including the San Francisco MOMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The MFAH in Houston, the Portland Museum of Art, The West Collection, the Coppel collection, the FEMSA Collection, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and among others.




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