On Material Practice: Martha Naranjo Sandoval

NICE FILM CLUB presents: Photographer Martha Naranjo Sandoval

At On Material Practice, Nice Film Club partners with Film Forever Weekend to present artist talks. Photographers whose practices move across distinct subjects, methods, and visual languages, yet remain deeply connected through their engagement with archive and analog image-making.

Martha Naranjo Sandoval’s long-term projects use 35mm film as a diaristic and intimate tool, building personal archives that examine migration, memory, sequencing, and the emotional weight carried by everyday images.

The conversation explores how film and analog materials shape the way artists see, remember, and construct narratives. Moving between the personal and the political, the archival and the immediate, the talks will consider how photographers use analog tools not only as aesthetic choices but as frameworks for thinking — about time, authorship, and the evolving role of the archive in contemporary practice.

Hosted by Nice Film Club in their upstairs showroom, this program invites audiences into an open dialogue on the continued relevance of film photography today, highlighting the diverse ways artists build meaning through process, material, and image history.