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When we think of home, we are often thinking of family and community. It's a place that hopefully provides security and stability.

However, the degree of those things looks very different, depending on many factors,

including location, culture, race, and sex.

It's easy to forget that the promise of that security is shaped by politics, class, and power. It's not always just an

innocent dream to aspire to. Alejandro Cartagena has spent years focusing on the complexities

of urbanization and homeownership, especially in Monterey, Mexico, where he lives. But the ideas

and themes that he explores in his photographs can be found in centralerey, Mexico, where he lives. But the ideas and themes that he explores in his photographs

can be found in Central, South, and North America.

His latest book, A Small Guide to Home Ownership,

compiles several of its personal projects

and presents it in a unique book design

that showcases his work with a sense of humor and irony.

This is IbarianX, and welcome back to the candid frame.

So how are you doing?

Good. It's been an interesting week, lots of work, you know, happy, listening to a lot of stoic philosophy ideas to kind of rebalance myself.

I think I was just telling my girlfriend that I need to listen to these ideas every certain amount of time because I forget that I know

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