
San Francisco-based Magnum photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti has a beautiful series of photos that captures the lives and friendship of two Argentine sisters growing up in a rural southern province in Buenos Aires.
In her on-going series titled ‘The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams’, she follows the girls as they transition from childhood to puberty. Her tender and affectionate portraits show how childhood innocence has given way to the complexities of adolescence, with both sisters by each other’s side.
As a child, Sanguinetti spent summers at her father’s farm where she met the sisters and was drawn to them. She said, “Beli and Guille were always running, climbing, chasing chickens and rabbits. Sometimes I’d take their picture just so they’d leave me alone and stop scaring the animals away, but mostly I would shoo them out of the frame. I was indifferent to them until the summer of 1999, when I found myself spending almost everyday with them. They were nine and ten years old then, and one day, instead of asking them to move aside, I let them stay.”
Sanguinetti has compiled her photos into a book of the same name, and is currently working on a second book documenting the sisters’ transition into adulthood, while exploring the role of women in Argentina.















[via Feature Shoot, images via Alessandra Sanguinetti]