Books of the month available at Capturism Studio Paris : — @sheidajanam , Panjereh پنجره (@matarileediciones ), 2025 — @vuyo_mabheka , Popihuise (@chose_commune ), 2024 — @prsnamagazine , Made in France Issue No. 5, 2025 — Heinz Hajek-Halke, Artist, Anarchist (@steidlverlag ), 2006
Sheida Soleimani – Panjereh پنجره (Matarile Ediciones)
A compact yet layered book that feels like looking through a fractured window into history, exile and care. Soleimani builds surreal, almost theatrical images where personal memory and geopolitics collide — birds, bodies and symbols arranged with both precision and tenderness. There’s something quietly intense here: a sense that healing and violence coexist, and that images can hold both without resolving them.
Vuyo Mabheka – Popihuise (Chose Commune)
A deeply personal reconstruction of childhood that blurs memory and invention. Mabheka stages his past like a handmade theatre, mixing collage, drawing and photography to fill the gaps left by absence — especially that of a father figure. The images feel playful at first, almost naïve, but beneath them runs a quiet tension between aspiration and reality, solitude and imagination. It’s a small book with a surprisingly expansive emotional world.
PRSNA Magazine – Made in France Issue No.5
More than a magazine, this feels like a statement about contemporary French creativity. It moves between fashion, art and intimate storytelling with a strong sense of identity and craft. The pacing is generous, the visuals confident, and there’s an underlying idea that making — carefully, thoughtfully — still matters. It’s the kind of issue you don’t flip through quickly; you return to it.
Heinz Hajek-Halke – Artist, Anarchist (Steidl)
A vivid rediscovery of a photographer who refused to stay within the lines. Hajek-Halke’s work jumps between experimentation and political urgency, moving from early avant-garde photomontage to later abstract explorations that feel almost psychedelic. The book carries that restless energy throughout — a reminder that photography can be both radical and playful, analytical and free at the same time.
Dorothy Lemelson Artist Lecture with Martha Naranjo Sandoval! @martha_mydear
Friday, March 6 @ 6PM
Join us at Portland’s Small Press & Art Book Fair as we welcome Martha Naranjo Sandoval for an artist lecture on her work and what inspires her practice.
Martha’s work focuses on the family album as means of creating community around photography. She holds a degree in Film from Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City, and an MFA from the International Center of Photography and Bard College.
In 2023 she presented the solo exhibition The Stench of Orange Blossoms at Miriam Gallery, and in 2024, Flowering Wound at Baxter Street Camera Club of New York as part of their Artist-In-Residency program. Her monograph Small Death, published by MACK, was shortlisted for the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook First PhotoBookAward. One of her pieces was included in the landmark exhibition "The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition" at the Brooklyn Museum.
She is the founder and director of the editorial project Matarile Ediciones @matarileediciones , which publishes work by artists who are immigrants or part of a recent diaspora.
This lecture is free & open to the public. It will be located in the first floor mediatheque at PNCA. (511 NW Broadway, Portalnd, OR 97209) This event will have a livestream available for our communities who can't be here in person!
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Thank you to the Dorothy Lemelson Foundation for supporting this lecture.
Portland’s Small Press & Art Book Fair is a print-forward celebration of independent publishing, highlighting risograph books, photo zines, small edition art books, and experimental printed matter. March 5-7, 2026 at PNCA.
Last days to view @sheidajanam : Panjereh, curated by @elisabethfsherman , at @icp . We had the privilege of making a publication of the same name in honor of this exhibition. DO NOT MISS!
We’re thrilled to present the fifth episode of Session Press Photobook Club, featuring a unique and heartfelt conversation between photographer Carlos Jaramillo and editor/writer Freddy Martinez, centered on Carlos’s newest book, Picadero, published by Matarile Ediciones in 2025.
In this playful yet deeply introspective episode, Carlos and Freddy take on each other’s roles—Carlos plays Freddy, and Freddy steps into Carlos’s shoes—as a way to reveal more honest, vulnerable sides of their creative practices and friendship. What unfolds is a beautifully sincere dialogue that not only reflects their deep personal connection but also their profound mutual understanding of each other’s work and vision.
We also share our favorite Asian photobooks of the month: Portrait by Seiichi Furuya and Blind Date by Lieko Shiga.
The new episode is out now — watch it on YouTube! (Link in bio) https://youtu.be/dpqv5VrnVb4?si=TmR31lmdaKu9tOBd
Special thanks to David @dashwood_books , @carlosjaramillo , @matarileediciones , Freddy Martinez Thumbnail photo by @minhanhnguyenn
Picadero Published by Matarile Ediciones (2025) Edited by Martha Naranjo Sandoval Designed by Studio Lin @studiolin Text by Aída Hurtado
Pls join us Thursday June 5th, 6-8PM for booksigning for Picadero by Carlos Jaramillo published by Matarile Ediciones. Carlos Jaramillo was 23-years-old when he realized his dad was from Colombia and not from Cuba. Excited to share an upcoming trip to what he thought was his father’s birthplace, Havana, Jaramillo was met with a confession: his father had made the tough decision to hide his true identity even from his own family. Carlos still embarked 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. Picadero not only documents the tradition of Old Havanan colombofilia, pigeon racing; the relationship between Carlos and Erislandy, who he visited multiple times and viewed as a father figure; and even more so his state of mind at a moment of impasse. This colorful book is accompanied by a poem by Chicana scholar Aída Hurtado, designed by Studio Lin, and edited by Martha Naranjo Sandoval. Edited by Martha Naranjo Sandoval Designed by Studio Lin Text by Aída Hurtado. Matarile Ediciones, run by Martha Naranjo Sandoval, is an artist-run photo book publisher that focuses on artists who are immigrants, their children, or part of a recent diaspora. Link in bio
Announcing Picadero by @_carlosjaramillo_ !
We’ve been working on this book for a long time and we are so excited to share it with you! We will have it at the Los Angeles @printedmatter_artbookfairs . Please join us for the signings at @ladywhite_co and @dashwood_books (details on the last slide)
Pre-order copies are available on our website!
Picadero by Carlos Jaramillo design by @studiolin text @aidahurtado100
Tomorrow is the last day to catch Puntas Abiertas by @lauren_noelle_oliver at @thisissalon .
It was such a joy to collaborate with Lauren and the wonderful folx at Salon! Thank you all for trusting us!
Not to be missed!
