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How American Photography Was Forged in the Mines

A tool for depicting the industries that shape contemporary life, photography is also enabled by a system of extraction that often goes unseen.

Robert Frank’s Genre-Bending Collaborations with Musicians

Patti Smith, Tom Waits, and the Rolling Stones liked Frank because he turned a sympathetic eye to the margins of American experience.
Mikhael Subotzky, Boat 2, 2008

A History of White Men in South Africa

In a new film, photographer Mikhael Subotzky takes on two hundred years of white masculinity.

Here Comes the Sun

At the Columbus Museum of Art, photographers look to the light in the sky.

South Africa in Black and White

In David Goldblatt’s photographs from apartheid to the present, a striking account of South African life.

From Three African Photographers, A Diverse Vision of Urban Life

An exhibition in Philadelphia explores African cities through street photography and portraiture.

Promised Lands

Are Israel and the West Bank an oasis, homeland, or colonial state? Twelve photographers set out to describe a contested territory.

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Stop Time, guest edited by Hiroshi Sugimoto: Aperture No. 264, Fall 2026

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