Cartagena, Alejandro

Alejandro Cartagena

Mexican, (born 1977-)

About the Artist

"Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena (Monterrey, Mexico) created this series of images by waiting on a bridge, pointing his camera down to the road below to capture Mexican carpoolers on their way to work. The result is an incredibly moving series of photographs that capture what is usually left unseen. Using the vantage point of the freeway overpass, Cartagena turns his camera lens to the workers traveling in the back of pick-up trucks, moving invisibly across the city. While the workers may not know it, their need to carpool also has an unexpected outcome - saving time and money also reduces traffic and fossil fuels in the city, and they become silent contributors to the environment and the preservation of the planet." -Louise Alexander Gallery. 

Works

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