PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf – Photography Podcast – Podcast

In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, Alejandro Cartagena returns to debate his mid-career solo exhibition Ground Rules at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, together with the accompanying e-book revealed by Aperture. Alejandro and Sasha dig into how each the exhibition and the e-book got here collectively, from idea to execution. He additionally displays on the lasting affect of his seminal undertaking Carpoolers, and the way it formed his pondering round images, know-how, and intent. The dialog expands to the broader cultural stakes of the medium, together with Alejandro’s latest investigations into AI-generated imagery. Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His tasks make use of panorama and portraiture as a way to look at social, city, and environmental points. Cartagena’s work has been exhibited internationally in additional than 50 group and particular person exhibitions in areas together with the Fondation Cartier pour l’artwork contemporain in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, and his work is within the collections of a number of museums together with 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 assortment, the FEMSA Collection, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and amongst others. Alejandro is a self writer and co-editor and has created a number of award wining titles together with Insurrection Nation, Studio Cartagena 2021, Santa Barbara Save US, Skinnerboox, 2020, A Small Guide to Homeownership, The Velvet Cell 2020, We Love Our Employees, Gato Negro 2019, Santa Barbara Shame on US, Skinnerboox, 2017, A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption, The velvet Cell, 2017, Rivers of Power, Newwer, 2016, Santa Barbara return Jobs to US, Skinnerboox, 2016, Headshots, Self-published, 2015, Before the War, Self-published, 2015, Carpoolers, Self-published with help of FONCA Grant, 2014, Suburbia Mexicana, Daylight/ Photolucida 2010. Some of his books are within the Yale University Library, the Tate Britain, and the ten×10 Photobooks/MFH Houston e-book collections amongst others. Cartagena has acquired a number of awards together with the worldwide 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 amongst others. He has been named an International Discoveries of the FotoFest pageant, a FOAM journal TALENT and an Emerging photographer of PDN journal. He has additionally 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. His work has been revealed internationally in magazines and newspapers comparable to Newsweek, Nowness, Domus, the Financial Times, The New York Times, Le Monde, Stern, PDN, The New Yorker, and Wallpaper, amongst others.