‘Carpoolers’ a photo series and book by Alejandro Cartagena. Alejandro Cartagena captured very powerful images of our hard working gente on their way to work. Much love and respect to Alejandro for capturing these moments and to all the hard workers, our deepest admiration. 🙏🏽🤎 | Brown N Proud

Alejandro Cartagena’s (@alexcartagenamex) Carpoolers is a photography series (2011–2012) that captured the reality of workers commuting in the back of pickup trucks, anonymous, uncelebrated, yet essential. From the vantage point of a highway overpass, the images transform precarious commutes into stark tableaux: men squeezed into truck beds, surrounded by their tools, en route to build homes far from their own. Cartagena documents the uniform rows of bodies, the fabrics, ladders, tarps, the geom

📍Carpoolers, Monterrey, Mexico. Photographer Alejandro Cartagena created this series of images by waiting on a bridge, pointing his camera down to the road below to capture Mexican carpoolers on their way to work. The result is an incredibly moving series of photographs that capture what is usually left unseen. Using the vantage point of the freeway overpass, Cartagena turns his camera lens to the workers travelling in the back of pick-up trucks, moving invisibly across the city. While the work

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