Alessandra Sanguinetti

Alessandra Sanguinetti
Sanguinetti in 2026
Born1968 (age 57–58)
New York
Known forphotographer
Websitealessandrasanguinetti.info

Alessandra Sanguinetti (born 1968) is an American photographer.[1][2] Sanguinetti is a member of Magnum Photos and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Life and work

El Collar/The Necklace, 1999, from The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their dreams.

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.
  • 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

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • The Life that Came, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, 2008[19]
  • Le Gendarme Sur La Colline: Photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti, Aperture Gallery, New York, 2017[20]

Group exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ Romig, Rollo (June 24, 2010). "Slide Show: Alessandra Sanguinetti's The Adventures of Guille and Belinda". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Alessandra Sanguinetti's best shot". The Guardian. December 20, 2007. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Bio". alessandrasanguinetti.info. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  4. ↑ Romig, Rollo (June 18, 2010). "Off the Shelf: The Adventures of Guille and Belinda". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  5. ↑ Abel-Hirsch, Hannah. "Alessandra Sanguinetti explores the passage of time through one enduring friendship". www.1854.photography. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  6. ↑ Enriquez, Mariana (October 21, 2023). "Novelist Mariana Enríquez on Alessandra Sanguinetti's 'brutal, beautiful' photographs". Financial Times. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  7. ↑ Balaga, Marta (July 9, 2026). "Locarno Festival Announces 'Adventurous' Lineup Featuring Caleb Landry Jones, Isabelle Huppert, Hong Sang-soo and Monica Bellucci". Variety. Retrieved July 21, 2026.
  8. ↑ Barraclough, Leo (July 15, 2026). "'The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer' Boarded by Autlook Ahead of Locarno Premiere as Clip Debuts (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved July 21, 2026.
  9. ↑ Magnum Photos Photographer Portfolio
  10. ↑ "Teenage dreamers: growing up in rural Argentina – in pictures". The Guardian. September 17, 2020. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Subscription Series 4". TBW Books. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Alessandra Sanguinetti's Le Gendarme sur la Colline". Bomb. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  13. ↑ MacLennan, Gloria Crespo (September 25, 2020). "Guille y Belinda, del despertar de la adolescencia a la madurez". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  14. ↑ Colberg, Jörg. "Some Say Ice". Conscientious Photography Magazine. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  15. 1 2 "Alessandra Sanguinetti". peabody.harvard.edu. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  16. ↑ "Alessandra Sanguinetti Archived August 4, 2019, at the Wayback Machine". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Alessandra Sanguinetti: Gardner Photography Fellow, 2009 Archived August 2, 2019, at the Wayback Machine". Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  18. ↑ "2009 Photography Grant – Sanguinetti Portfolio – National Geographic ...". National Geographic. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  19. ↑ "Yossi Milo Gallery | The Life that Came". Archived from the original on January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  20. ↑ "Alessandra Sanguinetti - Aperture Foundation NY". Aperture. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  21. ↑ "This Land". Pier 24. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  22. ↑ "Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum". International Center of Photography. July 14, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
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