by Jonathan Blaustein I recently spoke with Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena, who’s based in the battle-torn city of Monterrey. His work has been awarded and honored like crazy the la…
I recently spoke with Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena, who’s based in the battle-torn city of Monterrey. His work has been awarded and honored like crazy the last few years. “Suburbia Mexicana” was exhibited this Summer at Kopeikin Gallery in LA, and his current project, “Car Poolers,” was pubished in the NY Times Lens Blog and Lens Culture.
Spotlighted in the darkness, Alejandro Cartagena‘s dancers look lost in their own world, the chaos and crowds of Mexico’s NRMAL music festival vanishing in a blur of pure rhapsody. Long…
Spotlighted in the darkness, Alejandro Cartagena‘s dancers look lost in their own world, the chaos and crowds of Mexico’s NRMAL music festival vanishing in a blur of pure rhapsody. Long documenting life in Mexico, Cartagena recently has turned his attention to notions of youth – the trials, triumphs and joys of being young
Alejandro Cartagena’s photos reveal the private worlds of the backs of flatbed trucks that take working Mexicans to their jobs — people seeking a normal life, and doing what it takes to get there.
A bridge is situated on a highway that goes from the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo — across the United States border in Laredo, Tex. — due south to Monterrey. In the early-morning hours last winter, Alejandro Cartagena stood there, pointing his lens down at the passing cars, like a distracted spy.
