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

28. A mistake of a picture


Martha and Dylan, Brooklyn / Paris, November 2025.
ROLL 593 | FRAME 34
Last year in November I went to Paris. Every time I travel I rewind the roll that is in my camera and then load it back into the camera after I go through security and wind it to the frame where I left off. I forgot to wind it and I accidentally double-exposed four pictures from this roll, blending my room in Brooklyn with the streets of Paris. Of course, I now have the narrative of “I ruined the only three pictures I was excited about this year”. Which might or might not be true.

What is true is that I am so unsure about any of the pictures I took this year. They are not particularly different from the pictures that came before, but that is exactly the problem. When I made Small Death I looked at every picture I have ever made. I organized it and thought about them very hard. All the pictures I made afterwards did not surprise me. I also spent long stretches of time without photographing.

How does one go about making work?..

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