Alessandra Sanguinetti

The recorded working language is Spanish. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Work by Alessandra Sanguinetti is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Hessel Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Name — Alessandra Sanguinetti • Born — 1968 • Birthplace — New York • Known for — photographer • Website — alessandrasanguinetti.info

• Illustration — 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. Her main bodies of work include The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their dreams (2010) and The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer (2020), 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; 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. She has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2007.

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

• This Land, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA, 2018/19 • Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum, International Center of Photography, New York, 29 September 2022 – 9 January 2023