Location: Cotati, CA
Medium: Photography, film
Website: henricartierbresson.org/en/expositions/alessandra-sanguinetti
Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York City in 1968 and grew up in Argentina, where she lived from 1970 until 2003. She studied anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires and photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. She has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 2007. She is currently based in Cotati, in Sonoma County, California. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of MoMA New York, SFMOMA, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award. She has published six monographs including On the Sixth Day (2005), The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams (2010), The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer (2020), Some Say Ice (2022), and a new expanded edition of On the Sixth Day (2023). A third volume of the Guille and Belinda project is in progress.
Sanguinetti works in long-term, deeply collaborative photographic projects that interrogate mythologies of all kinds — of girlhood, of the rural, of America — while honoring lives that are usually unseen. Her first major series, On the Sixth Day, explored the beautiful and tragic reality of life and death on a farm in rural Argentina through rich color photographs of animals. Her defining ongoing project, The Adventures of Guille and Belinda, began in 1999 when she spotted two young cousins on a dirt road in rural Buenos Aires; she has followed the pair — now adult women — for over twenty-five years, producing a body of work that oscillates between documentary and fantasy, reality and myth, photography and collaboration. Her most recent completed series, Some Say Ice, depicts life in the small Midwestern town of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, continuing her confrontation with photography’s uneasy relationship to life and death. She is currently completing work on Palestinian daily life.
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