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
Sangre de mi Sangre, 2021, Martha Naranjo Sandoval, ed. Justine Kurland, published by Matarile Ediciones
Martha, Brooklyn, July 2023.
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Martha, Saugerties, July 2022.
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Mexico City, August 2022.
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Mexico City, August 2022.
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Martha and Aurora, Brooklyn, November 2022.
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Mexico City, February 2023.
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Ofelia and Alejandro, Mexico City, February 2023.
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Martha, Brooklyn, May 2023.
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Atizapán, February 2023.
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Martha, Cortland, December 2022.
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Dylan and Aurora, Brooklyn, May 2020.
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Martha, Brooklyn, June 2022.
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Martha, Queens, September 2023.
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Dylan and Martha, Brooklyn, December 2017.
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Mexico City, April 2018.
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Martha, Brooklyn, June 2022.
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Martha, Brooklyn, October 2023.
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Dylan, Brooklyn, July 2020.
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Charlotte, June 2018.
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Mexico City, December 2018.
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Manhattan, September 2014.
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Dylan and Martha, Gallatin, August 2023.
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Dylan, Brooklyn, July 2020.
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Dylan and Martha, Brooklyn, July 2018.
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Martha, Atizapán, December 2021.
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Dylan, Brooklyn, September 2020.ROLL 242 | FRAME 17
Dylan and Martha, Brooklyn, February 2020.
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Martha, Ofe, and Alit, Brooklyn, February 2023.
ROLL 432 | FRAME 13 Dylan and Martha, Brooklyn, December 2021.
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Ofelia, Brooklyn, August 2021.ROLL 41 | FRAME 14
Dylan, Brooklyn, January 2022.
ROLL 370 | FRAME 14Dylan, Brooklyn, February 2020.
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Martha, Brooklyn, August 2016.
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Martha, Brooklyn, August 2016.
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Brooklyn, November 2022.
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Mexico City, November 2019ROLL 140 | FRAME 01
Ofe, Brooklyn, March 2020.
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Brooklyn, December 2020.
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Dylan, Pachuca, December 2018.
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Dylan, Pátzcuaro, November 2019.
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Martha, Mexico City, August 2022.
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Dylan, Brooklyn, December 2017.
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Brooklyn, April 2019.
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Martha and Aurora, Brooklyn, December 2020.
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Dylan, Annandale-on-Hudson, July 2022.
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Martha, Saugerties, November 2022.
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Dylan, Seaside Heights, August 2019.
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Atizapán, April 2018.
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Brooklyn, July 2018.
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Dylan, Brooklyn, April 2019.
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Brooklyn, April 2021.
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Martha, Brooklyn, August 2021.
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Brooklyn, October 2020.
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Dylan, Brooklyn, June 2021.
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Martha, Brooklyn, September 2021.
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Ofelia, Brooklyn, March 2020.
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Hudson, July 2021.
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Dylan, Livingston, July 2021.
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Alejandro, Atizapán, December 2021.
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Ofelia and Alejandro, Atizapán, July 2015.
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Ofelia and Dylan, Mexico City, August 2022.
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Charlotte, June 2018.ROLL 93 | FRAME 12
Dylan and Ofe, Mexico City, August 2022.
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Ofelia and Ofe, March 2022.
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Alejandro, Atizapán, December 2021.
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Brooklyn, November 2021.
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Dylan, Atizapán, December 2021.
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Martha, Brooklyn, September 2021.
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Brooklyn, June 2017.
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Martha, Brooklyn, April 2015.