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Alejandro Cartagena

The photographer Alejandro Cartagena knows you want to go home. You yearn for a house that really feels like homean affordable space of serenity or happy chaos, with easy access to work, clean air, and clean water. Where you can become fully human and maybe raise a family. Not a site of destruction or pollution. Not

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