“Confluences” is a book you can’t possibly put down, once you start paging through it. Whether you come across photos of prairie dogs or flamingos, blue whales or blue-footed boobies, you know immediately that Guadalajara native Alejandro Prieto loves all the members of the animal kingdom.
“My father would take us out into nature, and that’s where I fell in love with animals,” Prieto told me. “As a result, I studied veterinary medicine and zootechnology. But then along came a course in photography in the Colegio de Fotografía del Occidente. And I found my niche.”
“Confluences” is a hard-backed, large-format book of 208 pages published by Artes de México in 2024. It has 65 color photos, all taken by Prieto, with seven chapters of text written by various naturalists.
Prieto’s extraordinary skill at taking photos both on land and underwater brought him into projects that might have discouraged many another photographer.
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