Alessandra Sanguinetti
Alessandra Sanguinetti is an American photographer. Sanguinetti is a member of Magnum Photos and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Life and work
Born in New York City, Sanguinetti moved to Argentina at the age of two and lived there until 2003. Currently, she lives in California.Her main bodies of work include The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their dreams and The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer, a more than twenty year long documentary photography project about two cousins as they grow up in the countryside of Buenos Aires; On the Sixth Day, which explores the cycle of life and death through farm animals' lives; Sorry Welcome, a meditative journal on her family life; and Le Gendarme sur la Colline, an intuitive, lyrical journey through France; and Some Say Ice, a luminous and unnerving book on death and the mid-west.
She has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2007.
Publications
Books of work by Sanguinetti
- The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams.
- *Contact Sheet 120. Syracuse, NY: Light Work, 2003..
- *Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2010.. With an essay by Gary Hesse.
- On the Sixth Day. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2005..
- *Mack, 2023
- Sorry Welcome. Oakland, CA: TBW, 2013. Subscription Series #4, Book #2. Edition of 1500. Sanguinetti, Christian Patterson, Raymond Meeks and Wolfgang Tillmans each had one book in a set of four.
- Le gendarme sur la colline. Co-published by Aperture and Fondation de l'entreprise Hermès, 2016.
- The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer. London: Mack, 2020..
- Some Say Ice. London, Mack, 2022..
Awards
- 2001: Hasselblad Foundation Grant
- 2007: MacDowell Fellowship
- 2008: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- 2009: Robert Gardner Fellowship, Harvard Peabody Museum
- 2009: Photography Grant, ''National Geographic''