Bio

Martha Naranjo Sandoval is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, photographer, publisher, and cataloguer from Mexico City. In 2023 she presented the solo exhibition The Stench of Orange Blossoms at Miriam Gallery, and in 2024 Flowering Wound at Baxter Street Camera Club of New York as part of their Artist-In-Residency programme. She holds a degree in Film from Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City, and an MFA from the International Center of Photography and Bard College.
She is the founder and director of the editorial project Matarile Ediciones, which publishes work by artists who are immigrants or part of a recent diaspora.

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Book out: Small Death, published by Mack

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Small Death
Project statement

Small Death collects photographs made by the artist Martha Naranjo Sandoval over her first decade living in New York after emigrating from Mexico City. Shaped around Naranjo Sandoval’s original contact sheets and film reels, it comprises an artist’s book unfolding in tactile and iterative form. Sandoval’s work moves between streetscapes, nude self-portraits, compositions of found forms, and tender photographs of her family, all suffused with a sensitivity to the ways in which the artist’s surroundings, loved ones, and home continuously shape her sense of self and belonging. The artist’s husband, parents, and siblings are pictured in their homes as well as in more dislocating rural and urban landscapes between the US and Mexico, tracing a continuum between displacement and rootedness. Meanwhile close-up self-portraits, interspersed throughout, act as registers of the determined introspection that anchors this powerful exploration of the image sequence and book form as means of physical and sensual expression.

Small Death was shortlisted for the First Photobook award at the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards.