8 Exhibitions to See This Summer
Wolfgang Tillmans in Paris, Carrie Mae Weems in Turin, Kunié Sugiura in San Francisco, and more—here are this season’s must-see photography exhibitions.
Read MoreBlack Style as a Form of Resistance and Joy
For Aperture’s summer issue, “Liberated Threads,” guest editor Tanisha C. Ford explores fashion’s ability to create possibilities for solidarity and selfhood across the African diaspora.
Read MorePhotography in a World Where the Center No Longer Holds
German artists have often used typologies to help us understand the world. But an exhibition in Milan parades photography’s failures: to document, to mourn, to bend experience into arcs of narrative.
Read MoreSebastião Salgado’s Vision of the Human Condition
The late photographer documented labor, migration, and the Earth’s fragile ecosystems with empathy and visual power.
Read MoreHow An-My Lê Makes Meaning from History’s Psychic Debris
In her photographs of Vietnam and the US, Lê masterfully uses blurred motion and stillness to reclaim the semiotics of war.
Read MoreWhy Does the Italian Polymath Bruno Munari Still Spark Joy?
Jason Fulford speaks about the obsessions he shares with the beloved artist and designer.
Read MoreAlana Perino Crafts a Haunting Story of Family and Memory
In the Florida island town of Longboat Key, the photographer—and winner of the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize—portrays a home upended by loss.
Read MoreA Shimmering Portrait of Contemporary Iran
When Sara Abbaspour returned to Iran after working in the United States, she found a new way of photographing her home country.
Read MoreHow the War in Ukraine Altered Life for a Lost Generation
Rather than making documentary images of the war itself, Daria Svertilova focuses on her friends and acquaintances—and the emotions of resistance.
Read MoreLife in Afghanistan after the Fall of Kabul
Hashem Shakeri’s photographs show the texture of daily life in a place the rest of the world has seemingly forgotten.
Read MoreA Transfixing Look at Nature at Its Most Unnatural
Emma Ressel’s dioramas question our relationship to animals and the environment in an era of climate anxiety.
Read MoreSakir Khader’s Portraits of Palestinian Perseverance
Khader’s photographs of people in conflict zones across the Middle East document violence and grief alongside moments of tenderness and reprieve.
Read MoreWilliam Kentridge on the Excess of the Studio
For the celebrated artist, photographs have always been a reference.
Read MoreConsuelo Kanaga’s Restless Eye
A retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum introduces the photographer to a new generation—and reestablishes her place in the canon of modern American art.
Read MoreA Photographer Who Built a Career Through Listening
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.
Read MoreBruce Weber’s All-American Obsessions
Weber’s ad campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch and Calvin Klein made him one of the most prestigious names in photography—until he was accused by male models of unwanted advances. Will a recent exhibition reshape his legacy?
Read MoreAnnouncing 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.
Read MoreA Photographer’s Scavenged Still Lifes
Leaving leftovers in her backyard, Lia Darjes creates a stage for a series of improvised tableaux.
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