Alejandro Cartagena

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Alejandro Cartagena’s Prolific Career as a Photographer and Editor

For over two decades, the Mexico-based artist has produced a compelling network of inquiries about social, urban, and environmental issues in Latin America.

An Exhibition in Tucson Looks at the Things We Leave Behind

Photographers Tom Kiefer and Alejandro Cartagena portray unseen lives, migrant journeys, and the disparity between reality and myth.

2009 Portfolio Prize Runner Up: Alejandro Cartagena

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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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