SUBURBIA MEXICANA (Mexico, 2007-2010)
For the last four years the Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena has been taking pictures of the urban expansions the Mexican government is promoting around the industrial city of Monterrey. On the edge of the nine cities that together form the conurbation of Monterrey, 400,000 new dwellings are rising at a lightning rate. Often these houses are built on the cheapest land and in places without adequate infrastructure. Cartagena recorded how the new residents try to make a home for themselves while coping with traffic jams, uncertain water supplies, uncared-for public spaces, vandalism and criminal gangs.
