Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1977, Alejandro Cartagena lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. Over the last two decades, his projects have employed landscape photography and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues. His work has been exhibited at more than 50 group and solo exhibitions, including the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) in Barcelona and the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Coppel collection, the FEMSA Collection, the George Eastman House, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Portland Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.