Photographers

Martha Naranjo Sandoval is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, visual artist, publisher, and archivist originally from Mexico City. Her multidisciplinary practice explores the materiality of images, the construction of personal and cultural memory, and the nuanced intersections of time between moving and still film. Frequently working with vernacular photography—such as home videos, family albums, and travel postcards—she transforms obsolete technologies and everyday snapshots into profound narratives on identity and displacement. Since relocating to New York in 2014, she has built an archive of hundreds of 35mm film rolls documenting daily diaspora life. Her major solo projects, including “The Stench of Orange Blossoms” (2023) and “Flowering Wound” (2024), critically engage with family dynamics, bodily representation, and cultural assumptions. Her work is held in elite institutional libraries, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography (ICP).