Alejandro Cartagena, part of Fotofest.Participará the collective project "International Discoveries 2 '
Abraham Vázquez caught his attention that new urban landscape dominated by housing looks uncomfortable almost toy, they multiplied like mushrooms in small spaces with no green areas and roads brief. Named his project as "Mexican Suburbia." These images 
opened the doors of one of the most important festivals of photography in the world, Fotofest, of Houston, where he will participate in the group "International Discoveries 2", which opens on 5 November. "I made a map and took almost lot by lot. It was a job where I spent walking around and taking pictures: I was bitten several dogs, I ran some neighbors, police officers interrogated me, I have shown my credential IFE thousands of times, "says the photographer.
The images of "Suburbia Mexicana" show in a critical and dramatic urbanization of "minicasitas" colonies growing on the slopes of hills, rivers that are now just memories, environmental pollution and neglect of areas such as Center.
"There is a difference in the way how they designed the neighborhoods where people live with money, for example, in San Pedro, with wide streets and green areas where mass urbanization," says the artist born in the Dominican Republic , based in Monterrey since 2004.
The project was supported by FONCA in the area of \u200b\u200byoung artists, was supplemented Research theories of urbanization.
"We are approaching the idea of \u200b\u200bcontemporary Mexican landscape," he says.
The exhibition "International Discoveries 2", to be held at the headquarters of Fotofest in Houston, Texas, Cartagena share space with eight artists, including Bi Wei, China, Minstrel Kuik Ching Chieh, Malaysia; Christine Laptuta, Canada, Rizwan Mirza, UK, and Vee Speers, Australia.
It aims to promote emerging talent and precedes the Fotofest Biennale, which opened in March 2010.
The expo opens on 5 November and will be until December.
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