Career
Her first solo show in the United States was in 2005 at Yossi Milo. Born in New York, Sanguinetti moved to Argentina at the age of two and lived there until 2003. Sanguinetti has stated that she began taking photographs to create a sense of permanence in her life after realizing that "everything is transitory." Currently, she lives in San Francisco, California.
Her most involved project is a documentary photography project about two cousinsGuillermina and Belindaas they grow up outside of Buenos Aires.
Sanguinetti recounts this, "I was shooting them without even thinking it was work. My first idea was to just do a single story trying to figure out what they imagined life to be, just so I could get into their world." Titled The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams, the project follows them as they fantasize about becoming adults, early motherhood, and becoming young women while their relationship changes.
In this particular collection of photographs, Alessandra makes commentaries about feminine conventions of beauty and behavior, as well as gender roles and gender identity. She occasionally ridicules social expectations through her images, which are often satirical in nature.
Sanguinetti told Vice reporter, Bruno Bayley, "Children are fascinating..As a society, we project so much of our hopes, frustrations, denials, and aspirations on children, and they are so transparent in how they reflect everything that is thrust upon them.
How could I not photograph them?" She has contributed to Life and The New York Times and been a resident at Light Work.
