Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena works in the haphazardly built, poorly planned suburban communities near Monterrey, Mexico where sullen teens roam cramped housing clusters and the drought-ridden landscape. This latest series — Car Poolers — is a bird’s eye view of men in trucks, just riding prostrate, looking skyward, some spotting the photographer, some of them asleep. There’s something decidedly eerie about them being slumped alongside barrels and buckets of bolts, like so much work equipment. One of these photos is currently shortlisted for Sony World Photo Awards.
























I live in Hawaiʻi. All the pickup truck beds look like this.
Damn. Mexicans drive to Hawaii?
What's with the recurrent, blue wheelbarrow?