THE ADVENTURES OF GUILE AND BELINDA

For more than two decades, Alessandra Sanguinetti has photographed the lives of Guillermina and Belinda, two cousins ​​living in the Argentine countryside, then as they passed through childhood and youth towards womanhood. This volume, Originally published in 2010 and reissued today as the first part of a trilogy, tells the story of the first five years of their collaboration. The images of Sanguinetti depicts a childhood that is both familiar and exceptional. Farmlands in western Buenos Aires province are a mixture particular of modern and traditional, where life is lived in harmony with animals and rugged landscapes. In this context, Guille and Belinda go through the childhood rites of dressing up and making believe, exploring and to take ownership of the world around them as they go. While they slide between roles, alternately performing for and being captured Through Sanguinetti's camera, the deep bond between the two girls is undeniable. As they approach the precipice of early adolescence, their games are imbued with the poignant weight of their dreams and desires as the world game meets reality. By depicting the lives of women and girls in the traditionally male world of gauchos and farmers Argentinians, Sanguinetti's book questions the frameworks of mythologies of all kinds, honoring lives that are usually invisible. The Adventures of Guille and Belinda is a portrait of rural childhood that is both calm and poetic, in in which the fantastic and the banal are intimately linked. Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York in 1968 and raised in Argentina where she lived from 1970 to 2003. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a Fellowship of the Hasselblad Foundation, and is a member of Magnum Photos. His photographs are part of public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Previous publications include The Sixth Day (2005) and The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Illusion of a Eternal Summer (MACK, 2020). Sanguinetti photographed for the New York Times Magazine, LIFE, Newsweek and New York Magazine and is currently based in San Francisco.