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The journey of daily commuters around Mexico is captured in the photo series "Carpoolers" by Alex Cartagena.

Looking down at the picture, we take in each scene as it appears, eventually lulled into a pattern that resembles the haze of a prolonged road trip; eventually, the landscape blurs into nothing. Cartagena deliberately uses this strategy to highlight how the working class is invisible in a society that prioritizes material wealth more and more and is led by officials who keep giving the property away for development without a clear plan for the future. In his closely cropped images, Cartagena challenges us to think about the political and economic systems that distribute wealth, labor, and energy globally.

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Zaza Zooey
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine how many hours you have to labor and how long your commute must be in order to be able to fall asleep in the back of a cold, hard, bumpy truck bed.

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Aran Lindvail
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All I can think of is how terribly unsafe this is. If the car swerves or crashes, those men have no chance.

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caper dj
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These pictures are definitely a reminder to be grateful for the privilege I have in owning my own vehicle.

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Jimmy Rutz
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do I see anything out of the mirrors every mirrors I see on each truck the point right at the side of the truck

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Connie Martin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm thinking now the guys who can ride in a pickup with a plastic bedliner are the "lucky" ones.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dude probably photographs the same stretch of road everyday so yeah you're gonna see the same vehicles and people just diff days. You that dumb?

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