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Alejandro Cartagena
"A bridge
is situated on a highway that goes from the Mexican city of Nuevo
Laredo — across the United States border in Laredo, Tex. — due south to
Monterrey. In the early-morning hours last winter, Alejandro Cartagena stood there, pointing his lens down at the passing cars, like a distracted spy.
He was peeking into the backs of the pickup trucks, where
construction workers pile together on their way to earn an honest
living. His photo series, “Car Poolers,” is an effort to peer inside these tiny worlds that straddle public and private.
'When I started to take the pictures from that point of view, that
just made a whole different thing open up, because there’s issues of
intimacy or privacy being expressed in a public space,' said Mr.
Cartagena, 35. 'There’s a sense of the invisibility of the reality of so
many people in Mexico that is popping out because of the images.'" NYTimes