Martha Naranjo Sandoval
  2. 35mm Diary
  3. Bellows
  4. How This Has To Be Told
  5. Petén 411

Exhibitions
  1. Flowering Wound
  2. The Stench of Orange Blossoms
    3. Día de Muertos
  
Books
  1. Small Death
  2. Flowering Wound
  3. Sangre de mi Sangre
  4. Como Agua Para Ajolote
  5. Bodega Rider
  6. Contact Sheet Notes
  7. Matarile Ediciones

25. A picture of Dylan and me


Dylan and Martha, Brooklyn, September 2023.
ROLL 464 | FRAME 25
There are a couple of books that I often come back to but the one that I perhaps pick up the most is Bluets by Maggie Nelson. There are so many reasons I like that book, which is perhaps a topic for another day, but one of the most important is that it’s a horny book. I think there is still an imbalance of how much horny work is made by women.

One of the first times I showed this work, a male photographer friend told me that he appreciated how much my work was about the female gaze. Before him saying that I had not given that aspect of my work a lot of thought. Before I was simply picturing the desire I felt for my husband, I am now well aware of what I am doing and what it means to do it...

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