Alejandro Cartegena and Sangyon Joo
Friday, February 3rd, 2017 7:30 PM PST
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA 94133
This event is presented in partnership with the San Francisco Art Institute
All photos © Alejandro Cartegena
About Alejandro Cartagena:
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. Using the book form as his main medium Alejandro looks to create montages and stories that expand the narrative of these issues.
His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of several institutions including the SFMOMA, the MoCP, the MFAH, the Harry Ransom Center, the West Collection and the George Eastman House among others. He has received the Photolucida Critical Mass book award, the Lente Latino award in Chile, the Premio Salon de la Fotografia from the Fototeca de Nuevo Leon and the Premio IILA-Fotografia 2012 award in Rome. He has been named a FOAM magazine Talent and one of PDN´s magazine 30 emerging photographers. He has published and self published several books including Suburbia Mexicana (2012 Photolucida/Daylight), Carpoolers 2014, Before the War 2015, Rivers of Power 2016 and Santa Barbara return jobs back to US with Skinnerboox in 2016. Alejandro’s work has been published internationally in magazines such as Newsweek, Nowness, Domus, the Financial Times, View, the Guardian, le Monde, Stern, PDN, the New Yorker, the Independent, Monocle and Wallpaper among others.
Publications by Alejandro Cartegena
About Sangyon Joo:
Sangyon Joo founded and runs Datz Press, a publishing company based in Seoul, Korea. It runs together with Datz Museum and the Magazine Gitz, focusing on fine art photography. Sangyon Joo received her BFA from Seoul National University and MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been involved in the cross-cultural art exchanges between Korea and the United States. Currently, she lives and works both in Seoul and New York.