Sunday, October 17, 2021

Martha Naranjo | Sandoval Sangre de mi Sangre








Martha Naranjo
Sangre de mi Sangre 
Brooklyn/Mexico City, USA/Mexico: Matarile Ediciones, 2021
32 pp., 5.5” x 8”, saddle-stitched
Edition of 300 


Sandoval's documentation of her life after relocating from  México to the United States from in 2014. The images in Sangre de mi Sangre were selected from over 300 rolls of 35mm film, and edited by artist Justine Kurland. 


“I married Dylan on March 6th 2020, a week before the Covid pandemic blew up and a lock-down was imposed in New York City. As newlyweds, we would be unable to leave the house for months, cementing the bond between us in ways unimaginable just weeks before. In those intensely close quarters, I applied for my marriage greencard which required me to prove that my relationship was real.

My love for Dylan is certain and undeniable but suddenly I was being asked to demonstrate it in a tangible way for the scrutiny of an anonymous immigration officer. Bureaucrats boil relationships down to leases, bank statements, and anodyne group pictures. Sangre de mi Sangre is my response to that reductive requirement imposed on love. The pictures within tell the story of intimacy, affection, and trust in a world turned upside down.”

—Martha Naranjo


Available from the publisher, here, for $16.00 US. 

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