Announcing the 2024 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist 

Aperture’s support of emerging photographers and other lens-based artists is a vital part of our mission. The annual Aperture Portfolio Prize aims to discover, exhibit, and publish new talents in photography—identifying contemporary trends in the field and highlighting artists whose work deserves greater recognition. 

Aperture’s editors reviewed an outstanding number of submissions, and we are thrilled to announce the shortlisted artists for the 2024 Aperture Portfolio Prize: 

River Claure 
Janna Ireland 
Abhishek Khedekar 
Avion Pearce 
Laila Stevens 

These artists join the ranks of illustrious winners and runners-up artists for the Portfolio Prize in past years, including Felipe Romero Beltrán, Dannielle Bowman, Alejandro Cartagena, Jessica Chou, Eli Durst, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Natalie Krick, Daniel Jack Lyons, Mark McKnight, Vân-Nhi Nguyễn, Drew Nikonowicz, Sarah Palmer, RaMell Ross, Bryan Schutmaat, Donavon Smallwood, Ka-Man Tse, and Guanyu Xu. 

The 2024 Portfolio Prize winner, to be announced on Tuesday, May 14, will be published in Aperture magazine, receive a $3,000 cash prize and a $1,000 gift card for gear at mpb.com, and present an exhibition at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York. The four runners-up will each receive an online feature. 

Alongside the shortlisted artists, Aperture’s editors also selected a longlist of twenty outstanding artists to recognize:  

Shavon Aja Morris, Andrés Barón, Robin Bernstein, Jo Ann Chaus, Jesse Clark, Leah DeVun, Jenna Garrett, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Khashayar Javanmardi, Alexander Komenda, Gabriel Lopez, Max Miechowski, Nathalie Mohadjer, Kriss Munsya, Adali Schell, Aaryan Sinha, Val Souza, Gilleam Trapenberg, Balázs Turós, Stan De Zoysa 

All twenty-five artists will each receive a virtual portfolio review session with an Aperture editor, who will provide thoughtful and constructive feedback on their work.