UPCOMING COMMUNITY

Building a Life for Your Photobook with Miwa Susuda and Martha Naranjo Sandoval

Join Miwa Susuda and Martha Naranjo Sandoval for a conversation about bringing a photobook into the world and giving it a life, as part of BAXTER ST’s Publication Practicum.

On July 22, 5–7 PM at 154 Ludlow St, Miwa and Martha will draw on their extensive experience making photobooks and working with artists to cover the full arc of building a life for your photobook: from working with a publisher or self-publishing, to marketing, distribution, art fairs, and finding your way into libraries and bookstores. The conversation will also touch on the broader ecosystem around photobook publishing and how releasing a book means entering a network and community, and what it takes to build an audience and get people to care about your work.

Drawing on their own experiences in the New York photobook world, they will speak to how the scene has evolved and how artists can get involved today.

ABOUT MIWA SUSUDA

Miwa Susuda is a writer, educator, and publishing consultant with more than two decades of experience in photography and photobook publishing. She is the manager of Dashwood Books and the founder of Session Press, an independent photobook publisher dedicated to introducing underrepresented voices from East Asia to international audiences. Through contemporary and historical publications by both emerging and established photographers, Session Press seeks to foster greater cross-cultural understanding while expanding the visibility of photographic practices from Japan, China, Korea, and the broader region.

ABOUT MARTHA NARANJO SANDOVAL

Martha Naranjo Sandoval is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, photographer, publisher, and cataloger from Mexico City. Her 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 PhotoBook Award. 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, which publishes work by artists who are immigrants or part of a recent diaspora.

ABOUT THE BAXTER ST PUBLICATION PRACTICUM

The BAXTER ST Summer 2026 Publication Practicum is a free, six-part series for photographers and artists who want to learn how to make photobooks.

Each week, a guest speaker or facilitator from the photobook world will discuss their work and answer questions from Practicum participants. Sessions will span the full spectrum of the photobook process: from conception to production to getting a book on store shelves. Whether you’re an experienced bookmaker or just beginning to explore the possibility, there’s something for you. 

Practicum hosts will include Lesley A. Martin, Alex Lin (Studio Lin), Christina Grillo (Trifolio), Michael Dayton Hermann, Miwa Susuda, Martha Naranjo Sandoval, and Andreas Laszlo Konrath (SHRIMP ZINE). 

Sign up for the sessions most interesting and relevant to your practice – that might be all six, or just one. Bring your questions, experiences, and an openness to connect with fellow participants and the session host over a shared love of bookmaking. Sessions will have a limited capacity to encourage dialogue.

The Publication Practicum is free and open to photographers and artists of all backgrounds and experience levels.