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"The National Geographic archive is the cause of true harm on a mass scale, and dehumanizes, exploits, and perpetuates the worldview of our lands as resources for plunder, and our lives as classifiable only through the white gaze."
"This work invites us to build, from the unavoidable relationship between images and texts, a human cartography of common stories and collective struggles."
"Like Orlando, these figures, who have not historically been of any value in Western painting, in pop imagery, or on the big screen, now exist profoundly in Thomas’s universe."
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Gail Albert Halaban invites viewers to consider what can be seen—and imagined—through the windows of their neighbors.
Pairing archival images and text, Michelle Dizon and Việt Lê pose a razor-sharp critique of colonialism.
In his recent photobook, Martín Weber negotiates the past and the future in Latin America.
Inspired by Virginia Woolf, Mickalene Thomas imagines a classic, gender-crossing heroine as a fashion muse for the twenty-first century.
Jamal Nxedlana travels through Johannesburg with the gender-defying artist duo FAKA.
From Zanele Muholi’s radical statements of identity to Nan Goldin’s iconic visual diary, Aperture highlights artists whose work illuminates LGBTQ+ perspectives.
Eleven curators, writers, and artists reflect on images of queer identity past and present.
In her newest series, artist and activist Zackary Drucker pays homage to a trans icon.
Working with vintage gay erotica, Pacifico Silano is committed to understanding how trauma and queer identity commingle.
An Italian photographer of Hollywood stars, now in his 90s, finally makes his debut.
In May, Aperture opened an exhibition of work featured in its “Orlando” issue, guest edited by Tilda Swinton.
Since the nineteenth century, photographers and writers have collaborated as equals—to varying degrees of success.
