In the photographer Alejandro Cartagena’s book “Suburban Bus,” some passengers rest awkwardly, attempting to sleep, but others read or gaze out the window at the pink-red sky.
Workers who live on the periphery of cities in Mexico rise in the dark, like sleepwalkers. They gather at roadsides—sometimes on vacant tracts of land, where the slightest wind whips up a dust storm—to wait for buses that, over the following hours, will take them into the city for their jobs.
Cartagena said he didn’t want the project to be intrusive. “Those were the people that I had ridden with for years, and those were the landscapes that I had seen shifting for years,” he told me. In portraits, some passengers rest awkwardly, attempting to sleep, but others read or gaze out the window at the pink-red sky.
Cartagena’s photographs are as political as they are poetic. From inside the bus, he captures the tiny, Lego-like affordable housing structures that are ubiquitous on the outskirts of major cities. These images reflect his long-term interest in urban planning and the ways it shapes the lives of residents; the deserted areas where some commuters get picked up, for example, speak to a lack of public service.
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