Please join us at the Aperture booth for Photo Basel 2019. The fair will present the The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.

Join Ethan James Green with three of his subjects and collaborators, Dara Allen, Marcs Goldberg, and Matt Holmes, for a wide-ranging discussion about beauty, portraiture, and the legacies of queer and trans representation fifty years after the Stonewall uprising. Moderated by Michael Schulman, arts and culture writer for The New Yorker and contributor to Young New York.

Green’s first monograph, Young New York, presents a series of striking black-and-white portraits of the city’s queer scene-makers, and depicts a gloriously diverse cast of models, artists, designers, nightlife icons, and gender binary–flouting muses to the fashion world and beyond. Celebrated for his photography in Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Another Man, for Young New York, Green photographed his close friends and community in the Lower East Side for over three years, and his humanist approach, inspired by Diane Arbus and August Sander, transcends the trends of the moment.

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Ethan James Green moved to New York as a teenager to work as a model. Since becoming a photographer in his early twenties, he has been commissioned by publications such as Dazed & Confused, Re-Edition, Love Magazine, i-D, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, and labels, including Alexander McQueen, Lanvin, and Prada. His work from Young New York was first featured in and on the cover of Aperture magazine’s Winer 2017 issue, “Future Gender.”

Dara Allen is a model based in New York. She made her debut with Marc Jacobs in 2017, and has appeared in Aperture, Dazed & Confused, i-D, Interview, and Vogue. In 2018, she was awarded the Leading Light Award by Immigration Equality, the nation’s leading LGBTQ immigrant rights organization.

Marcs Goldberg is a frequent subject of and creative collaborator with Ethan James Green.

Matt Holmes is a fashion editor and photographer based in Brooklyn.

Michael Schulman writes about arts and culture for The New Yorker and is the author of Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep (2016).

Invitation Only

Aperture’s Artist Book Committee invites members at the Benefactor Circle level ($2,500) and up to breakfast and a tour of Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha, led by Drew Sawyer, Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography.

9:00–9:30 a.m. Coffee and breakfast
9:30 a.m. Private tour

Liz Johnson Artur (b. 1964) is a Ghanaian-Russian photographer based in London. Her work documents the lives of black people from across the African diaspora. Dusha, the Russian word for “soul,” is Johnson Artur’s first solo museum exhibition. It primarily features a selection of photographic works, including photo “sketchbooks” and videos, that draw from her vast Black Balloon Archive. This includes some of her most iconic pictures from the past thirty years as well as new photographs, such as portraits of people associated with a monthly East London club night. A copious selection of the artist’s photographic sketchbooks highlights the ways in which she has organized and conceptualized her Archive since the early 1990s. Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha is curated by Drew Sawyer, Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum.

Not a Benefactor Circle Member? Join today to receive an invitation for you and a guest to attend our June 28th breakfast and other events throughout the year. For further assistance, contact Kodie-Ann Walcott at 212.946.7108 or [email protected]

The Aperture Artist Book Committee (ABC) is a group of patrons united by a commitment to the photobook’s evolving contribution to the photographic medium, a belief in its importance to contemporary photographic practice. The ABC facilitates the publication of books that do not otherwise have an obvious means of support. The committee holds voting meetings twice a year.

Image: Liz Johnson Artur, Josephine, Peckham, 1995. Chromogenic photograph. Courtesy and © the artist

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore will be closed Thursday, July 4, 2019.

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore will be closed Monday, September 2, 2019

Do you know where you’re going next with your photography–or where it’s taking you? This intensive weekend workshop will help photographers begin to understand their own distinct way of seeing the world. It also will help photographers figure out their next step photographically–from deepening their own unique vision, to the process of discovering and making a long-term project that they’re passionate about. A workshop for serious amateurs and professionals alike, it will be taught by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, a creative team who often edit projects and books together-including their new Aperture book, Brooklyn: The City Within.

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore will be closed Monday, October 14, 2019.

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore will be closing at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 27, 2019.

Aperture Foundation Gallery and Bookstore will be closing at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 24, 2019.

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore will be closed for the Holidays starting December 25, 2019. We will reopen Thursday, January 2, 2020.