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Alessandra Sanguinetti Portfolio

National Geographic magazine awards its third annual photography grant to Alessandra Sanguinetti to support a project that looks at food production from farm to table.

/photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-1.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-160.jpg The necklace, 1999. Buenos Aires, Argentina Cousins Guillermina and Belinda dress up with old clothes found in Guillermina's grandmother's deserted farm house.]]> /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-2.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-260.jpg The toast, 2000. Buenos Aires, Argentina Belinda and Guillermina toast with orange fizz to their relatives' portraits hanging on the wall in their grandmother's old home.]]> /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-3.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-360.jpg Summer bath, 2000.� Buenos Aires, Argentina Juana looks on as Guillermina cools off in the windmill's tub.]]> /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-4.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-460.jpg The black cloud, 2000. Buenos Aires, Argentina After loud thunder, Guillermina and Belinda hold each other in anticipation of the big storm.]]> /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-5.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-560.jpg The wedding bed, 2007. Maipu, Argentina Belinda, eight months pregnant, puts on her wedding crown for the photograph and looks out her bedroom window waiting for her husband to come home.]]> /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-6.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-660.jpg Juana's legs, 2000. Buenos Aires, Argentina A duck picking at the scabs on her legs. All her animals follow Juana and watch her every move as they wait to be fed.]]> /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-7.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-760.jpg Ostrich eggs found while hunting, 1997. Buenos Aires, Argentina A poacher and his dog stand over their caught hare. Next to where it died lie two ostrich eggs.]]> /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-8.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-860.jpg Slaughtered hen, 1999. Buenos Aires, Argentina After having its throat slit, the chicken is held up to bleed.]]> /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-9.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-960.jpg Dog and blood stained hands, 2004. Buenos Aires, Argentina A young dog looks on, waiting to drink the pool of blood, as Emir washes his hands after slaughtering a sheep.]]> /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-10.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-1060.jpg Kids tied together for the purpose of nursing, 1997. Buenos Aires, Argentina The kid lagging behind was born sick. Juana tied it to its sibling so it wouldn't be left behind to die and covered the healthy one's head to give the sick goat a chance to nurse.]]> /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-11.jpg /photo-grant/img/sanguinetti-1160.jpg Juana, 1998. Buenos Aires, Argentina Juana lives with her family on the side of the road, on municipal land. Her husband, now retired, had worked for the municipality maintaining the dirt roads for 40 years so they were unofficially allowed to keep their house and animals on the road. Although they have a well-built house with electricity and plumbing in town, she refuses to leave the land and her animals.]]>