Alessandra Sanguinetti is an Argentinian photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on the lives of children and their families. She was born in Buenos Aires in 1968 and studied photography at the Escuela de Artes Visuales MartÃn Malharro.
Sanguinetti's work has been exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the International Center of Photography. Her photographs have also been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic.
In 2005, Sanguinetti was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her project "The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams," which documented two young girls living in rural Argentina over a period of five years. This project was later published as a book by Aperture in 2009.
In addition to her photographic work, Sanguinetti has directed several short films, including "The Watermelon Woman" (2006) and "The Adventures of Guille and Belinda" (2009). She has also taught photography workshops around the world.
Sanguinetti currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.