alejandro cartagena

alejandro cartagena (b. 1977) Dominican Republic

Alejandro lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. He is an artist, teacher and promoter of photography. His projects are primarily documentary based work, exploring landscape as well as portraiture as a way to examine social, urban and environmental issues of Latin America. His work also seeks to have a relationship to the history of photography either by reinterpreting or by rethinking ways in how to engage poignant issues addressed in the past. This has widened his works´ aesthetic and conceptual approach and added layers of meaning to his complex interpretations of our society.

He has been named one of PDN´s 30 emerging photographers and has received the Photolucida Critical mass book award. His work has been exhibited and published internationally and is in several public and private collections in Mexico, USA, Brazil and Italy. He is recipient of several major national grants, numerous honorable mentions and acquisition prizes in Mexico and abroad. He is currently teaching at the faculty of visual arts of the University of Nuevo Leon as he continues his photographic projects about the Latin American landscape and its people.