Carpoolers 4

For one year, Alejandro Cartagena photographed construction workers riding in the back of pickup trucks from their homes near Monterrey, Mexico, to their jobs in San Pedro, Mexico. The commute averages between 45 and 90 minutes each way. Looking down from an overpass, Cartagena made bird’s eye views of the trucks that carried men as they sat or slept amid their equipment. The workers, who lived in new suburban developments far from public transportation, relied on these daily carpools. Cartagena saw in these men a willingness “to do whatever it takes to own a house but still go to the city, where there is work.”