Magnum Poster: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998

“The Adventures of Guille and Belinda” is the story or, more accurately, part of the story, of two young cousins. In 1999, when they were 10 and 9 years old respectively and living in a rural province of Buenos Aires, their paths crossed with photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti. Drawn to the girls, whose evident affection for each other is somehow magnified by their differing physiques, Sanguinetti took pictures to “crystallize their rich yet fragile and unattended world”. The resulting series of photos follows the cousins for five years, from their pre-teen years to adolescence, as they play, dream and unwind their way through the sacred period that is childhood.