Join Aperture and Magnum Foundation for the celebration of “The End of Nature?,” the spring 2026 issue of Aperture magazine.
The title of this edition of Aperture magazine references Bill McKibben’s 1989 manifesto which alerted the world to global warming and how human intervention has altered nature’s cycles. Photographers have long celebrated nature, using the lens to investigate it as a realm of spiritual contemplation or aesthetic contemplation detached from people, providing perspective to the vulnerable position of humans, or turning the degradation of nature into spectacles which shock viewers out of their complacency. Almost four decades after McKibben’s plea, “The End of Nature?” asks: how do contemporary photographers address ecological emergency?
The event is cohosted by Magnum Foundation and the issue will be available for purchase.
Please RSVP here.
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Image: Hashem Shakeri, from the series The Kahur Does Not Fall Unless the Earth Wills It, Balochistan, Iran, 2018–ongoing. Supported by Magnum Foundation
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