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

30. A peeing self-portrait


Martha, Germantown, December 2025.
ROLL 609 | FRAME 20
Last week, I showed this self-portrait at NADA with Miriam Gallery. I have been trying to take this picture for a long time and I was excited when the roll came back from the lab and it surpassed my expectations.

A photograph of a peeing woman is nothing new. Sophy Rickett took a series of women (herself included) in business casual clothing peeing standing up at night in London’s financial district. Emmet Gowin took a picture of Edith Morris, his wife, peeing inside a hut, pee puddle glistening and all. Jia Chang took a series of black and white self-portraits peeing standing up in multiple positions against a black background. I still have wanted to take this picture for a long time.

And there it is. Me, as a fountain, with a trail of bright pee coming directly from me onto the ground. Taken on a cold winter day, in front of a river.

A photograph of a peeing woman is nothing new...

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