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A Photographer’s Final Collaboration with His Father

In 2019, Brian Lau traveled to Ho Chi Minh City to document the last months of his father’s life, creating a moving meditation on family and grief.

2022 Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Adrien Selbert

Thirty years after the Bosnian War, Selbert’s portrait of a country reckons with the aftermath of conflict.

“Please Tell the World What Is Happening to Us”: A Photographer’s Account of Covering the War in Ukraine

Natalie Keyssar speaks about her powerful, yet devastating photographs from Ukraine—and the essential need for photography in a moment of crisis.

2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Chance DeVille

Working collaboratively with their mother, Chance DeVille creates a photographic examination of the long-lasting effects of domestic abuse and trauma.

A Photographer’s Visual Poem about Solidarity and Protest

Yu-Chen Chiu examines collective experiences in the United States and the ways that historical narratives shape our future.

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2020 Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Lindley Warren Mickunas

In haunting black-and-white photographs, Lindley Warren Mickunas investigates the complexities of the maternal bond.

Introducing: Garrett Grove

Against the backdrop of the US presidential election, a photographer documents growing cultural tensions in the Pacific Northwest’s rural communities.

Introducing: KangHee Kim

Unable to leave the United States due to visa restrictions, this South Korean photographer makes images of surreal escapism.

2019 Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Teresa Eng

In her lyrical, dreamlike images, Teresa Eng asks—what does modern China look like to a child of the Chinese diaspora?

Introducing: Leonard Suryajaya

In the first of our new series, “Introducing,” which highlights exciting new voices in photography, Aperture speaks with a queer, Indonesian photographer who makes explosive pictures of his family.

2018 Portfolio Prize Runner Up: Hausthor and Guilmoth

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Aperture 254

Aperture Releases “Counter Histories,” Produced with Magnum Foundation Spring Issue Presents Photographers Who Uncover Personal and Political Histories (New York—March 6, 2024) What creative possibilities are offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records? This spring, Aperture magazine presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their…