Melissa Harris

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Sebastião Salgado’s Vision of the Human Condition

The late photographer documented labor, migration, and the Earth’s fragile ecosystems with empathy and visual power.

The Sicilian Photographer Who Fought the Mafia

An impassioned activist and fearless documentarian, Letizia Battaglia lived by the heart and the camera.

A Surrogate for Love

What can the doll community tell us about relationships today?

Koudelka's Prague, Fifty Years Later

When Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia’s capital in August 1968, Josef Koudelka was one of the first on the scene.

Are You Listening, America?

Eugene Richards’s new film shares stories of overlooked citizens.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Delpire, 1960

Remembering Robert Delpire, Publisher of the Greats

Aperture commemorates the life of Robert Delpire (1926–2017).

Remembering Robert Anthoine (1921-2015)

Editor-in-chief Melissa Harris remembers Robert Anthoine, who served on the Board of Aperture Foundation.

What Do You See?

Melissa Harris speaks with artist Sophie Calle about her most recent projects Last Seen, and What Do You See?

Richard Misrach and Kate Orff Discuss Petrochemical America

Melissa Harris talks with Richard Misrach and Kate Orff about the process of depicting and unpacking the complex ecologies featured in Petrochemical America.

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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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