Home comforts, apocalyptic futures: Deutsche Börse prize nominees – in pictures

Alejandro Cartagena: Family walking home in a suburb in Juárez N.L from the series A Small Guide to Homeownership, 2020

A Small Guide to Homeownership takes its stylistic cues from the How to…? guide books. Printed on thin paper and running to over 300 pages, it encompasses an extensive range of visual material. Utilising landscape images, advertisements, texts, portraits, city backdrops and documentary photography to create layered collages, Cartagena weaves a complex cautionary tale about the historical, political, public and personal concepts and processes of home-buying in Mexico