ApertureWS, Author at Aperture

For the latest installment of “Introducing,” Aperture speaks with Luther Konadu, whose constructed photographs riff on the work of Carrie Mae Weems and Paul Mpagi Sepuya.

Carolyn Drake’s photographs of the 2018 wildfires point to the human role in creating a new, terrifying normal.

For nearly a decade, Nina Katchadourian has made images on airplanes using only a cell phone and found objects.

Arguiñe Escandón and Yann Gross travel to Peru in search of connections to nature.

Along the coast of South Africa, Thirza Schaap collects discarded bottles and shopping bags to create fanciful sculptures.

How Chuck Shacochis made Edward Furlong into an art star.

Eight years after a devastating tsunami, Lieko Shiga investigates Japan’s haunted landscapes.

David Benjamin Sherry’s spectacular photographs of contested lands.

The legacy of Mali’s influential photography biennial.

In an era of monopolized truth, Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist.

Susan Lipper, Kristine Potter, and Justine Kurland deconstruct the mythology of the Wild West.

The photographer’s psychological portraits cast a unifying light around the world.

In Florida, Kathryn Harrison photographs her mother and brother with fearless intensity.

At home in Japan, Motoyuki Daifu captures his family with gleeful candor.

In dizzying sequences, the irreverent photographer embraces risk and failure.

In the digital age, locking down a sequence of images in print can seem like an act of resistance.

Hannah Starkey’s cinematic, psychologically astute portraits define the contemporary flaneuse.

The artist discusses feminism, photograms, and what it means to “hover” in the world.

Posts by ApertureWS

Introducing: Luther Konadu

California on Fire

How to Make Art at 30,000 Feet

Foreigners in a Foreign Land

The Photographer Giving New Life to Ocean Plastic

The Photographer Behind John Waters's Cult Classic "Pecker"

A Japanese Photographer’s Encounters with Natural Disasters

Will America's National Monuments Survive the Trump Administration?

Bamako Revisited

How Can Photojournalists Navigate the Crisis of Press Freedom in Mexico?

Three Women Photographers Reclaim the American Landscape

For Alex Majoli, Photojournalism and Performance are Inseparable

The Hard Truths of Family Life

A Japanese Photographer’s Gleefully Chaotic Family Life

Roe Ethridge on Getting It Exactly Wrong

What Does Photo Editing Look Like?

Strong Women

Between Pictures and Concrete Objects