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35mm Diary

Martha, Brooklyn, October 2019.

ROLL 132 | FRAME 22

Year: 2014- On-going
Medium: 35mm color film

I started taking these pictures in 2014. As of 2020, the collection contains 231 film rolls. They are archived in chronological order and organized with contact sheets.

I take these pictures for the same reason parents take pictures of their children, to remember and reminisce. When I moved to the United States I started taking pictures of what it felt to move. I mostly took pictures of the garbage in my neighborhood and the people I was hooking up with. As time passed the debris on the street felt more quotidian and it stopped being interesting. I now mostly take pictures of my husband, his body, his face, the way we move together in our space. I do not question too much why I’m taking pictures; I just lean into what my eyes want to capture.

From The Stench of Orange Blossoms at Miriam Gallery

Postcards
From 2020 to 2022 I sent pictures from these diary as postcards to five different people every week. I ocasionaly still send them for special ocasions.

Newsletter
I have been scanning pictures from these diary and sending them as a newsletter.

Exhibitions

Interwoven: Unveiling the Poetics of Observation, 2024, curated by Jaclyn Dooner, Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Flowering Wound, solo show, 2024, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
The Stench of Orange Blossoms, solo show, 2023, Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Embodied, 2023, curated by Grace Sanabria and Paula Lycan, Hercules Art Studio Program, New York, NY
Here is Elsewhere, 2022, two person show with Kat Shannon, private residence
Featured Photographers from En Foco, 2021, online exhibition, Social Documentary Network
La Frontera: A New Latinx Lexicon, 2021, online exhibition, Humble Arts Foundation
Any Time Soon, solo show, 2020, curated by Verónica Puche, Notas al Futuro
Talk in Images: Work, 2018, Curated by Wesley Verhoeve, International Center of Photography Museum, New York, NY

Books

Flowering Wound, Martha Naranjo Sandoval, 2024, published by Calipso Press
Como Agua Para Ajolote, 2022, Martha Naranjo Sandoval, published by Dashwood Books
Sangre de mi Sangre, 2021, Martha Naranjo Sandoval, ed. Justine Kurland, published by Matarile Ediciones

Martha, Brooklyn, July 2023.

ROLL 455 | FRAME 24

Martha, Saugerties, July 2022.

ROLL 391 | FRAME 03

Mexico City, August 2022.

ROLL 404 | FRAME 22

Mexico City, August 2022.

ROLL 407 | FRAME 30

Martha and Aurora, Brooklyn, November 2022.

ROLL 414 | FRAME 34

Mexico City, February 2023.

ROLL 428 | FRAME 07

Ofelia and Alejandro, Mexico City, February 2023.

ROLL 431 | FRAME 30

Martha, Brooklyn, May 2023.

ROLL 443 | FRAME 04

Atizapán, February 2023.

ROLL 431 | FRAME 14

Martha, Cortland, December 2022.

ROLL 420 | FRAME 18

Dylan and Aurora, Brooklyn, May 2020.

ROLL 171 | FRAME 25

Martha, Brooklyn, June 2022.

ROLL 385 | FRAME 06

Martha, Queens, September 2023.

ROLL 465 | FRAME 24

Dylan and Martha, Brooklyn, December 2017.

ROLL 74 | FRAME 10

Mexico City, April 2018.

ROLL 87 | FRAME 22

Martha, Brooklyn, June 2022.

ROLL 345 | FRAME 08

Martha, Brooklyn, October 2023.

ROLL 469 | FRAME 26

Dylan, Brooklyn, July 2020.

ROLL 80 | FRAME 10

Charlotte, June 2018.

ROLL 91 | FRAME 20

Mexico City, December 2018.

ROLL 110 | FRAME 08

Manhattan, September 2014.

ROLL 03 | FRAME 20

Dylan and Martha, Gallatin, August 2023.

ROLL 460 | FRAME 05

Dylan, Brooklyn, July 2020.

ROLL 177 | FRAME 26

Dylan and Martha, Brooklyn, July 2018.

ROLL 98 | FRAME 33

Martha, Atizapán, December 2021. ROLL 365 | FRAME 20

Dylan, Brooklyn, September 2020.ROLL 242 | FRAME 17

Dylan and Martha, Brooklyn, February 2020. ROLL 152 | FRAME 17

Martha, Ofe, and Alit, Brooklyn, February 2023.
ROLL 432 | FRAME 13

Dylan and Martha, Brooklyn, December 2021.
ROLL 360 | FRAME 13

Ofelia, Brooklyn, August 2021.ROLL 41 | FRAME 14

Dylan, Brooklyn, January 2022.
ROLL 370 | FRAME 14

Dylan, Brooklyn, February 2020. ROLL 149 | FRAME 18

Martha, Brooklyn, August 2016. ROLL 47 | FRAME 07

Martha, Brooklyn, August 2016.

ROLL 402 | FRAME 21

Brooklyn, November 2022.

ROLL 413 | FRAME 11

Mexico City, November 2019ROLL 140 | FRAME 01

Ofe, Brooklyn, March 2020. ROLL 155 | FRAME 13

Brooklyn, December 2020. ROLL 263 | FRAME 10

Dylan, Pachuca, December 2018. ROLL 109 | FRAME 13

Dylan, Pátzcuaro, November 2019. ROLL 138 | FRAME 05

Martha, Mexico City, August 2022.

ROLL 397 | FRAME 06

Dylan, Brooklyn, December 2017. ROLL 76 | FRAME 27

Brooklyn, April 2019. ROLL 118 | FRAME 32

Martha and Aurora, Brooklyn, December 2020. ROLL 265 | FRAME 02

Dylan, Annandale-on-Hudson, July 2022. ROLL 390 | FRAME 04

Martha, Saugerties, November 2022.

ROLL 416 | FRAME 14

Dylan, Seaside Heights, August 2019. ROLL 122 | FRAME 16

Atizapán, April 2018. ROLL 87 | FRAME 20

Brooklyn, July 2018. ROLL 96 | FRAME 17

Dylan, Brooklyn, April 2019. ROLL 118 | FRAME 02

Brooklyn, April 2021. ROLL 295 | FRAME 23

Martha, Brooklyn, August 2021. ROLL 338 | FRAME 01

Brooklyn, October 2020. ROLL 249 | FRAME 13

Dylan, Brooklyn, June 2021. ROLL 323 | FRAME 07

Martha, Brooklyn, September 2021. ROLL 352 | FRAME 27

Ofelia, Brooklyn, March 2020. ROLL 153 | FRAME 10

Hudson, July 2021. ROLL 327 | FRAME 05

Dylan, Livingston, July 2021. ROLL 328 | FRAME 15

Alejandro, Atizapán, December 2021. ROLL 363 | FRAME 20

Ofelia and Alejandro, Atizapán, July 2015. ROLL 31 | FRAME 28

Ofelia and Dylan, Mexico City, August 2022.

ROLL 407 | FRAME 24

Charlotte, June 2018.ROLL 93 | FRAME 12

Dylan and Ofe, Mexico City, August 2022.

ROLL 407 | FRAME 18

Ofelia and Ofe, March 2022. ROLL 378 | FRAME 22

Alejandro, Atizapán, December 2021. ROLL 366 | FRAME 01

Brooklyn, November 2021. ROLL 355 | FRAME 34

Dylan, Atizapán, December 2021.

ROLL 364 | FRAME 33

Martha, Brooklyn, September 2021.

ROLL 349 | FRAME 22

Brooklyn, June 2017. ROLL 68 | FRAME 32

Martha, Brooklyn, April 2015.

ROLL 20 | FRAME 02