BEFORE THE WAR: ALEJANDRO CARTAGENA.; Texts by César Valdez. Design concept by Alejandro Cartagena and Fernando Gallegos

México, D.F.: Cráter Invertido; The Author, 2015. 5 booklets, 1 poster, 1 b/w pict. postcard, all inside cardboard closed envelope. Title from envelope. SIGNED AND NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 190 of Risograph, Offset and Laser printing photobook by Alejandro Cartagena. In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. the state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places where the war was eventually fought and look for signs of an evil that lay underneath but was invisible to everyone´s eyes at the moment these images were shot.