Martha Naranjo Sandoval & Charlotte Jansen: 'Small Death' [Book launch & signing]

Join us at Tenderbooks for the UK launch of Martha Naranjo Sandoval’s Small Death. The book collects photographs made by the artist over her first years living in New York after emigrating from Mexico City. Shaped around Naranjo Sandoval’s original contact sheets and film reels, it comprises an artist’s book unfolding in tactile and iterative form as well as an intimate document of her closest family and friends. 

Martha Naranjo Sandoval will be joined in conversation by Charlotte Jansen, photo critic at The Guardian and author of Photography Now (Tate/ilex, 2021) and Girl on Girl (LKP, 2017).

Free to attend.

Thursday 20 November
18:00-20:00 

18:00 - Doors Open
19:00 - Martha Naranjo Sandoval & Charlotte Jansen in conversation 

Tenderbooks 
6 Cecil Court 
London WC2N 4HE 
United Kingdom 

About Small Death 

Sandoval’s work moves between streetscapes, nude self-portraits, compositions of found forms, and tender photographs of her family, all suffused with a sensitivity to the ways in which the artist’s surroundings, loved ones, and home continuously shape her sense of self and belonging. The artist’s husband, parents, and siblings are pictured in their homes as well as in more dislocating rural and urban landscapes between the US and Mexico, tracing a continuum between displacement and rootedness. Meanwhile close-up self-portraits, interspersed throughout, act as registers of the determined introspection that anchors this powerful exploration of the image sequence and book form as means of physical and sensual expression.

Can't make it? Purchase a copy of Small Death here.