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01 West 176 Street
by groana melendez

Saddle stitch, rubber-stamped obi band
32 pages
5.5” x 8”
Matarile series, 1
OCLC: 1286074994
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$20West 176 Street is a selection of images taken at groana’s home on the street by the same name. This apartment is where she grew up and where her parents still live.
The publication includes both images from her family album and pictures she has been taking of the place and its inhabitants since 2005.

02 Sangre de mi Sangre
by Martha Naranjo Sandoval

Saddle stitch, rubber-stamped obi band
32 pages
5.5” x 8”
Matarile series, 2
OCLC: 1286079072
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$20Martha has been photographing her quotidian life since she moved to the States from México in 2014. The pictures in Sangre de mi Sangre (Blood of my Blood) were selected for this collection of over 300 35mm rolls and edited by artist Justine Kurland. This book is a love letter from the artist to her husband, composed as they were filling out their immigration papers.
03 Quiéreme Mucho
by Cristina Velásquez

Saddle stitch, rubber-stamped obi band
32 pages
5.5” x 8”
Matarile series, 3
OCLC: 1286079936
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$20Quiéreme Mucho (Love me a lot) is a selection of recent and old work by
Cristina. Her image-making process consists in two moments. The first one, in which she let’s herself guide by intuition to shoot the images; and the second, in which she edits and dissects the work, looking at it through a critical lens while she questions her decisions, crops the images, and examines her impulses.
04 Sedimental Feelings
by Marion Ellena

Saddle stitch, rubber-stamped obi band
32 pages
5.5” x 8”
Matarile series, 4
OCLC : 1313944561
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$20For Sedimental Feelings, Marion Ellena brings together images made between 2006 and 2021. The publication combines images she took during her teenage years, recent photographs, and pictures that have been manipulated in the darkroom with filters, light, and photogramming.
05 La Luz También Viaja
by Genesis Báez

Saddle stitch, rubber-stamped obi band
32 pages
5.5” x 8”
Matarile series, 5
OCLC: 1346670922
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$20Genesis Báez was born in Massachusetts to Puerto Rican parents who had migrated there in the 1980s. La Luz También Viaja (Light Also Travels) brings together a selection of photographs from an ongoing body of work made in Puerto Rico and the Northeast US. In these, she images landscapes, constructs still lives, and enacts gestures with women from her family or with women who remind her of them.
06 Pax Tecum Filomena:
Una Canción Para Ti
by Muriel Hasbun

Saddle stitch, rubber-stamped obi band
32 pages
5.5” x 8”
Matarile series, 6
OCLC: 1422103169
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$20Muriel Hasbun grew up in El Salvador. Her paternal family was Christian Palestinian. Pax Tecum Filomena: Una Canción Para Ti is an ode to her paternal cousin, Janet Samour Hasbun, who joined the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) during the Salvadoran Civil War, and was killed and tortured by the government.
07 Puntas Abiertas
by Lauren Oliver

Saddle stitch, rubber-stamped obi band
32 pages
5.5” x 8”
Matarile series, 7
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$16Lauren Oliver uses light as a language to delve into her own identity.
She experiments with multiple analog processes using her body as the primary subject of her work.
This lush publication focuses on hair as a material for culture and expression.
08 Panjereh پنجره
by Sheida Soleimani

Saddle stitch, rubber-stamped obi band
32 pages
5.5” ✕ 8”
Matarile series, 8
OCLC: 1528112234
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$20Panjereh (window or passageway) explores Sheida Soleimani’s parents’ experiences of political exile and migration as a lens to examine broader systems of geopolitics. Known for her intricate, studio-based compositions that combine photographs, props, live animals and even her own parents in surreal, magical realist scenes, Soleimani expands her practice in Panjereh with the debut of a new body of work featuring injured birds. 
Picadero
by Carlos Jaramillo

Saddle-stitched hardcover 
64 pages + poster
9” ✕ 11.6”
OCLC: 1527911226
979-8-89692-840-9

$55Carlos Jaramillo was twenty-two and about to embark on a trip to Old Havana when he found out he was Colombian-Mexican-American and not Cuban-Mexican-American, like he had thought up to that point. Carlos still went on the trip, which no longer held a homecoming significance. It was in this state of mind that he met Erislandy, a Cuban pigeon racer who’s known throughout Old Havana for dyeing his birds fluorescent colors. 

Bodega Rider
by Martha Naranjo Sandoval

Saddle stitch
28 pages
5” x 7.5”
Zinecitos series
OCLC: 1411762911
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$14Since 2016, Martha Naranjo Sandoval has been photographing herself with rides from bodegas, delis and neighborhood corner stores around New York City.
In This Light She’s Under
by Kat Shannon

Saddle stitch
28 pages
5” x 7.5”
Zinecitos series
OCLC: 1475640820
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$14In This Light She’s Under brings together photographs of home in order to build a poetic portrait of family and queer maternity. Using the camera as both a mirror and a canvas, the photographs tenderly examine domestic intimacy while invoking a shared gaze and mythic ambivalence towards motherhood.
The Dictionary of Home
by Philo Cohen

Saddle stitch
24 pages
5” x 7.5”
Zinecitos series
OCLC: 1492314146
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$14The Dictionary of Home is part of an on-going series in which the artists defines different aspects. This one is particularly personal since it not defines home as seen by the artist.
To Conjure:  New Archives in Recent Photography
Widline Cadet, Koyoltzintli, Tarrah Krajnak, Shala Miller, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Keisha Scarville, and Sasha Wortzel

Saddle stitch
36 pages
6.75” ✕ 9.75”
OCLC: 1501990356
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$24“In the most politically radical sense of the word, the artists in this show are conjurers. They conjure a presence previously unseen but always present. They conjure to affirm the possibility of something more. They are conjuring not in service of resolution within the archive, but for its expansion. They conjure to create, to question, to breathe, to witness, to spill, to break, to convene, to cut, to cloak, to name, to exist.”
—KS
No human is illegal.
Ningún ser humano es ilegal.