Santa Barbara Save Us by Alejandro Cartagena

A collection of works by Alejandro Cartagena, a photographer living in Mexico.

This book is the final chapter in a trilogy that follows the cultural turmoil that America has experienced over the past four years. In this chapter, the current state of America, where both the present and the future are uncertain, is expressed using images of fires, photographs of disturbing residential areas, and reproductions of illustrations. Fragmentary images unfold one after another without any context, as if shouting out loud that this chaos is the best way to express the current situation. The use of a memorial book-like binding also seems to entrust this book to future readers who can judge this era as an event in the past.

First edition 750 copies.

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Title: Santa Barbara Save Us
Artist: Alejandro Cartagena
Skinnerboox, 2020
Hotfoil Velvet Softcover, 230 × 340 mm
112 pages
First edition of 750 copies
ISBN 978-88-94895-41-4
¥5,500 + tax