The Adventures of Guille &Belinda

-photograph by Alessandra Sanguinetti from book one of The Adventures of Guille & Belinda


While looking through Sanguinettis work and reading about her take on this series, she mentioned how she didn't want Guille or Belinda (two young sisters that would often visit the house that Sanguinetti was photographing at with their parents) in the photographs with the animals. As Sanguinetti kept returning to this place to photograph, she was spending so much time with them and in the summer of 1999, (Guille and Belinda were now 9 and 10 years old) she decided to stop asking them to move out of the photographs. This specific photograph helped me understand why she eventually changed her mind because she was able to capture, not only the life that each creature was living, but the relationship they share.