"It was in a Guardian image gallery that I read Justine Kurland describing her son as giving her pictures. When I read that, I knew I could never put it better myself. I only photograph people I have ties with. These people give me these pictures, particularly my husband, Dylan."
"The top left picture captures the waves hitting my face. It was a central image in my solo show last year. A wonderful thing about showing contact sheets is that you see not only the images I eventually selected, but also the neighbouring ones; variations of an image and the process that led to it"
"It was early on that I realised my parents are great collaborators. They are eager to participate in anything they believe helps me because they love me. I have on occasion taken maybe too much advantage of this. I moved from Mexico to the United States in 2014, my parents stayed in Mexico. Photographing them has taken on more significance"
Martha Naranjo Sandoval emigrated from Mexico City to New York in 2014 and made photographs during her first years there. Small Death collects original contact sheets and film reels into a tactile artist’s book published by Mack. The images range from streetscapes and found-form compositions to nude self-portraits and tender family photographs of her husband, parents and siblings. The contact-sheet format reveals variations and the selection process behind final images. Photographs move between US and Mexican landscapes, tracing a continuum between displacement and rootedness while close-up self-portraits record sustained introspection and evolving senses of home and identity.
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