BrendanEmbser, Author at Aperture

What do the late artist’s emotional photo-text letters reveal about the craft of self-expression?

Inspired by Mexico City’s Sonora Market, the photographer’s cinematic new series depicts an unshakeable belief in enchantment.

Carmen Winant on feminism, photobooks, and the radical gestures of world-building.

How can photography represent humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity?

In the 1990s, a group of inventive young artists remade Mexico’s capital as a backdrop for experiments in photography, film, and performance.

What do modern masterworks look like in black and white?

A striking exhibition in Paris revisits the treasures and dreams hidden beneath the German artist’s unorthodox photographs.

From the gold rush to e-waste, Lisa Barnard’s new photobook offers a visual biography of a precious commodity.

For Indigenous artists, can photographs provide a space of visual sovereignty?

Mitch Epstein discusses Standing Rock, the American flag, and the moment he saw Mount Rushmore cry.

The Memphis-born photographer navigates performative intimacy, the legacy of the Mississippi Delta Chinese, and the pitfalls of visual language for queer Asian men.

Ayana V. Jackson’s exhibition of radically speculative character portraits inaugurates the midwest home of a leading American gallery.

The provocative photographer trains her eye on childbirth, gay sex, and Kanye West.

The life and work of Latin America’s most revered photographer.

From Duane Michals’s first New York retrospective to the swinging nightlife of London’s Soho, here are this fall’s must-see exhibitions.

Image Text Ithaca is leading the way in experimental and hybrid image-text photobooks.

How Mexican photographers are pushing new visions for the medium.

Zora J Murff reflects on the intertwined legacies of segregation and violence in Black communities.

Posts by BrendanEmbser

Laura Aguilar Was a Proud Latina Lesbian, and She Flaunted It

Tania Franco Klein’s Magic Spells

What is a Feminist Photobook?

On the Cover: Wolfgang Tillmans Guest Edits Aperture's "Spirituality" Issue

Spiral City

A Lesson in Art History from Hiroshi Sugimoto

In Sigmar Polke's Experimental Images, the Negative is "Never Finished"

All That Glitters is Fool's Gold

Notions of Land

How to Map a Territory that You Don’t Own

Tommy Kha Isn’t Kissing You Back

At Mariane Ibrahim's New Chicago Gallery, an Otherworldly Portrait Series

Heji Shin’s Penetrating Gaze

Graciela Iturbide’s Dreams and Visions

Agenda: 4 Photography Exhibitions to See in Fall 2019

The Publisher at the Forefront of Photographic Literature

On the Cover: Aperture's "Mexico City" Issue

What Can Photographs Tell Us About the History of Redlining in the US?