{"podcast":{"title":"PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - Photography Podcast","slug":"photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436","podcast_index_feed_id":403436,"rss_url":"https://pinecast.com/feed/photowork","website_url":"https://photowork.foundation","image_url":"https://storage.pinecast.net/podcasts/covers/357c49ad-dbf9-4d30-aa59-5d6eae73edc6/PhotoWork_Podcast_CoverA.JPG.jpg","author":"PhotoWork Foundation","episode_count":124,"summary":"Interviews with photographers, curators, and publishers on contemporary photography, photobooks, artistic practice, and the evolving landscape of fine art photography.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T00:19:01.892803+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436"},"episode":{"title":"Alejandro Cartagena - Episode 104","slug":"alejandro-cartagena-episode-104","published_at":"2026-01-09T14:00:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436/alejandro-cartagena-episode-104","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436","url":"https://photowork.foundation","audio_url":"https://pinecast.com/listen/d34e056d-30a9-44e9-b7d0-beabfe6cfd35:943097a1-d74d-46c3-a028-ae97c5beb103.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3","summary":"In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf , Alejandro Cartagena returns to discuss his mid-career solo exhibition Ground Rules at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , along with the accompanying book published by Aperture . Alejandro and Sasha dig into how both the exhibition and the book came together, from concept to execution. He also reflects on the lasting impact of his seminal project Carpoolers , and how it shaped his thinking around photography, technology, and intent. The conversation expands to the broader cultural stakes of the medium, including Alejandro’s recent investigations into AI-generated imagery. https://alejandrocartagena.com https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/alejandro-cartagena-ground-rules/ https://aperture.org/books/alejandro-cartagena-ground-rules/ Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban, and environmental issues. Cartagena’s work has been exhibited internationally in more than 50 group and individual exhibitions in spaces including the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, and his work is in the collections of several museums including the San Francisco MOMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The MFAH in Houston, the Portland Museum of Art, The West Collection, the Coppel collection, the FEMSA Collection, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and among others. Alejandro is a self publisher and co-editor and has created several award wining titles including Insurrection Nation, Studio Cartagena 2021, Santa Barbara Save US, Skinnerboox, 2020, A Small Guide…","meta_description":"In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf , Alejandro Cartagena returns to discuss his mid-career solo exhibition Ground Rules at San Francisco Museum…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4271,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436/episodes/alejandro-cartagena-episode-104/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/photowork-with-sasha-wolf-photography-podcast-403436/alejandro-cartagena-episode-104.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}