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We are pleased to announce three new limited-edition prints by Gregory Halpern, featuring photographs from his Buffalo portfolio published in Aperture Issue #226: "American Destiny."

“Buffalo’s economic slump defines the city in the popular imagination. That understanding is rooted in fact: Buffalo is one of the poorest large cities in America. And you can find that in Halpern’s photographs, which feature unkempt places and people with ragged edges. . . . Halpern recognizes through these pictures that, amid Buffalo’s difficulties, ‘babies are born there. People fall in love there. Certain people would say the city is dying, but it’s also continually being born.’”

—Brian Sholis

Archival Pigment Print
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches
Image Size: 16 x 20 inches
Edition of 7
Signed and numbered by the artist

Gregory Halpern (b. 1977, Buffalo, New York) received a BA in history and literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published six books of his work: Harvard Works Because We Do (2003); A (2011); East of the Sun, West of the Moon (in collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato, 2014); ZZYZX (2016); Confederate Moons (2018); and Omaha Sketchbook (2019). He is co-editor of The Photographer’s Playbook (with Jason Fulford, Aperture, 2014) and teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.