In Bangladesh, Sarker Protick combines the impulses of a photojournalist with the intuition of a musician, unpacking questions about photography’s relationship to time and memory.

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Announcing the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist 
Portfolio Prize

Announcing the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist 

Here are the shortlisted artists for Aperture’s annual award, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography.
Remembering Nona Faustine’s Powerful Self-Portraits
Remembrances

Remembering Nona Faustine’s Powerful Self-Portraits

Faustine’s photography was a love letter to New York—and a fierce assertion of Black presence in public spaces and collective history.
How Have Photographs Shaped Our Idea of Work?
Interviews

How Have Photographs Shaped Our Idea of Work?

An exhibition contends with the role of images, policy, and activism in forming our relationship to labor and the American Dream.
Sally Mann’s Photographs of Girls on the Cusp of Adulthood
Essays

Sally Mann’s Photographs of Girls on the Cusp of Adulthood

Looking back at Mann’s book “At Twelve,” we see how much change lies ahead for each of the young women she pictured.

“Aperture is a collaboration between people who believe that visual culture is central to understanding and developing society in a way that is mindful and generative.” —Hank Willis Thomas, artist

“Aperture is a collaboration between people who believe that visual culture is central to understanding and developing society in a way that is mindful and generative.” —Hank Willis Thomas, artist