"working as the library manager at the International Center of Photography, overseeing projects for Dashwood, and producing zines through her publishing house, Matarile Ediciones. Spending her days poring over others' work, some titles have shaped her idea of what makes a photo book truly remarkable - from Carmen Winant's My Birth, with its tactile documentation of women in labour, to Nobuyoshi Araki's Winter Journey, which sequences his wife's final days in hospital and their honeymoon in a moving, elegiac rhythm."
"It grapples with various themes central to Sandoval's life in this period, but the overarching question it bravely asks is: does a version of you die when you move to a new place? Painting a layered and personal portrait of what it means to be an immigrant in America today, the resulting book moves gesturally between golden hour streetscapes, searching nudes, abstractions and tender images of her loved ones."
Martha Naranjo Sandoval moved from Mexico City to New York in 2014 and became active in the city's photographic community, working at the International Center of Photography and publishing through Matarile Ediciones. Her debut photobook Small Death, published by Mack, is assembled from over 500 rolls of film and documents a fragmented ten-year journey living in the United States. The book explores immigrant identity, belonging, love, and bodily presence, sequencing streetscapes, nudes, abstractions and intimate family images. The work poses whether a version of oneself dies when relocating and responds to the political moment affecting immigrant lives in America.
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