Alessandra Sanguinetti
American photographer (born 1968)
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Alessandra Sanguinetti (born 1968) is an American photographer.[1][2] Sanguinetti is a member of Magnum Photos and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Alessandra Sanguinetti | |
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Sanguinetti in 2026 | |
| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) |
| Known for | photographer |
| Website | alessandrasanguinetti |
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.[3]
Her main bodies of work include The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their dreams (2010)[4] and The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer (2020),[5] 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 (2005), which explores the cycle of life and death through farm animals' lives;[6] 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.
In 2026, Sanguinetti directed The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer a documentary film based upon her previous photography work, which will have its world premiere at the 79th Locarno Film Festival and distributed by Mubi.[7][8]
She has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2007.[9]
Publications
Books of work by Sanguinetti
- The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams.[10]
- Contact Sheet 120. Syracuse, NY: Light Work, 2003. ISBN 9780935445305.
- Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1590052693. With an essay by Gary Hesse.
- On the Sixth Day. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2005. ISBN 978-1590050705.
- 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.[11]
- Le gendarme sur la colline. Co-published by Aperture and Fondation de l'entreprise Hermès, 2016.[12]
- The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer. London: Mack, 2020. ISBN 978-1-912339-97-6.[13]
- Some Say Ice. London, Mack, 2022. ISBN 978-1-913620-71-4.[14]
Awards
- 2001: Hasselblad Foundation Grant[15]
- 2007: MacDowell Fellowship[15]
- 2008: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[16]
- 2009: Robert Gardner Fellowship, Harvard Peabody Museum[17]
- 2009: Photography Grant, National Geographic[18]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Group exhibitions
- This Land, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA, 2018/19[21]
- Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum, International Center of Photography, New York, 29 September 2022 – 9 January 2023[22]