Alessandra Sanguinetti

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Alessandra Sanguinetti
Born1968
New York
NationalityAmerican
Known forphotographer
Website alessandrasanguinetti.info

Alessandra Sanguinetti (born 1968) is an American photographer. [1] [2] A number of her works have been published and she is a member of Magnum Photos. She has received multiple awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Life and work

El Collar/The Necklace, 1999 by Sanguinetti El Collar, 1999.jpg
El Collar/The Necklace, 1999 by Sanguinetti

Born in New York City, Sanguinetti moved to Argentina at the age of two and lived there until 2003. Currently, she lives in California. [3]

Her main bodies of work include The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their dreams 2010'and "The Ilusion of an Everlasting Summer, 2020', a more than twenty year long documentary photography project about two cousins—Guillermina and Belinda—as they grow up in the countryside of Buenos Aires; On the Sixth Day',2005 ', which explores the cycle of life and death through farm animals' lives; Sorry Welcome'2013', a meditative journal on her family life; and Le Gendarme sur la Colline', 2017', an intuitive, lyrical journey through France; and "Some Say Ice",2022, a luminous and unnerving book on death and the mid-west.

She has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2007 [4] and is a Magnum Workshop teacher. [5] [6] [7]

Publications

Books of work by Sanguinetti

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

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