Carpoolers #84 is produced in support of Printed Matter for the occasion of Printed Matter + EXILE Books at NADA Miami 2021. This work is part of a series titled Carpoolers that documents workers in northeastern Mexico traveling from newly built suburbs to their workplaces hours away. Cartagena photographs them as part of his long term project Suburbia Mexicana which addresses the causes and effects of Mexico’s suburban boom of the 21st century.
Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban, and environmental issues. His work is in the collections of several museums including the San Francisco MOMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and among others. He has published books since 2006 and runs the publishing project Los Sumergidos.