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For half a century, Fox Solomon photographed New Yorkers and their habitats, unraveling the city’s public and private histories.

Pérez is known for making images that appear both performative and diaristic. Here, the photographer opens up about finding and celebrating friends, family, and community, frame by frame.

Avedon was renowned for his fashion photography and celebrity portraiture, but in the 1970s he made indelible images of coal miners, cotton farmers, and cowboys.

Tod Papageorge speaks about his photographs of skin, swimsuits, sand, and surfboards—and what it’s like bringing a large-format camera to the beaches of Los Angeles.

Memories often bring solace in prison, so capturing them in photos brings a layer of permanence.

Whether in the UK or Ghana, the British photographer immerses herself in communities, and her images are infused with a spirit of collaboration.

In her airy live-work loft high above the cacophony of downtown Manhattan, the photographer reflects on her decades-long career.

In his crisp, ecstatic photographs, Nuits Balnéaires draws from iconic West African portraiture to depict his circle of friends and family.

Solange Knowles interviews the director about her visionary career spanning fashion, photography, music, and film.

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.

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.

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.

The late photographer documented labor, migration, and the Earth’s fragile ecosystems with empathy and visual power.

Ocean Vuong reflects on Lê’s photographs of Vietnam and the US, considering how the artist masterfully uses blurred motion and stillness to reclaim the semiotics of war.