ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI
Images from the book Some Say Ice, by Alessandra Sanguinetti, shot over the course of eight years in Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
“Stay focused on your point of view and don’t try to please. The more personal your gaze, the more layered and interesting the portrait will be.” Alessandra Sanguinetti’s advice to aspiring photographers working in portraiture, from the interview “Alessandra Sanguinetti: On Youth and Portraiture,” published at magnumphotos.com.
Images from Alessandra Sanguinetti’s On the Sixth Day. The monograph, explains Mack Books, “offers us a glimpse of life on a small Argentine farm from the perspective of its animals. Often photographed close to the earth, the images render the courage, struggles, and adventures of chickens, pigs, horses, and cows. We see them newly born, at play, vying with each other for food, their fate always uncertain as human presences inevitably loom above. With their rich, almost surreal colour, these photographs evoke traditional fables or classic children’s books in which animals enact human behaviours to teach moral lessons. Yet Sanguinetti portrays these animals as individuals in their own right, each with their own mysterious spirit, relating their lives from birth to death with an unsentimental and direct gaze.”
Images from Le gendarme sur la colline, published by Aperture in 2017. The book, explains Aperture, “explores Alessandra Sanguinetti’s vision of France, in which old traditions persist even while they fray and shift in relation to contemporary stresses, including multiculturalism.”
