Photobook: The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer – Alessandra Sanguinetti

The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer is telling a story about two cousins, through a series of staged images which documents their childhood.

Alessandra Sanguinetti made this book to show the relationship between the two cousins. Sanguinetti started taking images of the cousins when they were nine as she first met them when she was working on another project. Sanguinetti stated that “something in the pair reminded her of the summers she spent as a child in the Argentine countryside” which were ultimately the happiest times in her life. Sanguinetti then worked with Guille and Belinda over the next 21 years, documenting how they change over time and how their relationship with the camera develops. Sanguinetti would film and take photos of the girls, capturing the special moments. The majority of the images were taken near Sanguinetti’s fathers farm, in the farm house. Sanguinetti focused in key themes such as girlhood, love, and family which is demonstrated by the images within the book. In a way Sanguinetti’s book acts as a photo album for the family as it shows how the girls have grown up and changed through out the years.

The book feels heavy due to its many pages and hard cover, which is soft in texture with a square image in the middle of it which continues when you open the book. The book is structured so there is one image per two page spread. Each image is in a square format on an A4 page, centred in the middle of the page surrounded by a white boarder. This is a constant theme throughout the book which gives the book a family photo album feel. The title of the book is written in gold front along the spine of the book along with Sanguinetti’s name. The book is held together by