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Alejandro Cartagena brings together images and texts connected with Nuevo León, Mexico, revisiting scenes that preceded the violence of the drug war. Apparently ordinary settings become charged with uncertainty: the reader searches for traces of a threat that was not visible when the photographs were made. Rather than depicting atrocities directly, the work explores the unease, confusion and vulnerability that violence leaves in collective experience. 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Bodies share space with ladders, buckets and tools; passengers sleep, wait or shelter together as the vehicles carry them towards work. Alejandro Cartagena’s repeated viewpoint turns a familiar, often overlooked form of transport into a sustained examination of labour and the expanding city. Each truck holds a different arrangement of people and possessions, while the accumulating images reveal a shared condition. Carpoolers #4 continues Cartagena’s reappraisal of this body of work, placing the people who sustain urban growth at the centre of the book. 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Photographs and archive material meet in a sequence where scenes of daily life sit beside images of fire and destruction. Their juxtaposition makes the familiar feel unstable, suggesting how public anxiety can enter ordinary spaces and reshape their meaning. Rather than presenting a single explanatory account, Cartagena builds connections through repetition, contrast and the tensions between facing pages. Jonathan Blaustein’s introduction draws attention to fire as a recurring force within the project: an image of fear, engulfment and the scars left behind. 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