Alejandro Cartagena (born 1977) is a Dominican Republic-born Mexican photographer.
[4] Cartagena has been shortlisted for the 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
[5] Cartagena is interested in the "effects of suburban sprawl on population growth and the environment in his home city" of Monterrey, Mexico.
For Carpoolers (2014) he photographed construction workers from above, travelling to work along Mexican Federal Highway 85 in the back of their contractors' trucks, in 2011.
Highway 85 links the city centre and its wealthier parts with the surrounding suburban sprawl.