Issue #32 / Talent / Alejandro Cartagena
Car Poolers
Car Poolers seems to represent how Mexican suburbia is not
working. According to Cartagena, the images 'act like an intimate
interior where these men prepare themselves for a long day of work;
the only thing strange about it is that they do it in a public
space. If you think of early twentieth-century photography of
tenement houses in New York, Lewis Hine comes to mind. People were
squashed into small rooms hoping for a better future; hoping one
day to be home owners, which eventually happened. But now it seems
as though, here in Mexico, to preserve the dream of owning your
house in the suburbs you are forced into a squashed state
again'.
Alejandro Cartagena was interviewed for this issue of Foam
Magazine by Anne-Celine Jaeger.