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"Alison didn’t seem to need anyone else, including an audience, to 'complete' these photographs."
"People mobilize at cost—deserting schools and jobs, braving tear gas and beatings—in response to moral and material urgencies."
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"Swindells has been able to take candid pictures in clubs like Shoom because he made himself part of the culture, bearing witness without ever being intrusive."
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"For Sobekwa, the tactile, scrapbook format is essential to the project, and the photographs are as much a public record as they are the artifacts of a private myth."
April Dawn Alison made thousands of pictures focusing on a single subject—herself. But, who was she?
Protest is a form of communion.
The making of a now-famous series of photographs.
In Dave Swindells’s photographs, nightclubs become spaces for community and belonging.
Wolfgang Tillmans, Tilda Swinton, Graciela Iturbide, and more—this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.
Years after the South African photographer’s sister mysteriously disappeared, his images become a public record of a private myth.
Through her work with Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, the visionary writer Anita Brenner ushered in the Mexican renaissance.
Sandrine Colard and Laurence Butet-Roch examine the history of how African women have been pictured, and in turn, how they look back at the viewer.
For ten years, Adam Murray and Robert Parkinson have celebrated the hyperlocal through their expansive photo project.
The artist looks back on a town that has long captivated his imagination, through every flowering of identity and sexual politics.
Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s iconic novel Orlando, the artists in Aperture’s “Orlando” issue explore the limitless territories of identity, history, and consciousness.
What comes first–the idea for a project, or the images themselves?
