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"Alam’s goal was—is—to transform the very nature of international documentary photography and photojournalism by building a hub for these fields in South Asia."
"In Spencer’s work, light obscures as much as it illuminates."
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"To be a brown, gay, full-framed woman in the world takes courage, these images say."
Like any metropolis, LA is dynamic, changing, evolving, contested.
Carmen Winant’s archive considers the terrors and pleasures of childbirth.
In Bangladesh, the brutal arrest of a prominent photographer incites an international outcry.
In a series of haunting Polaroids, Ryan Spencer draws upon neo-noir movies set in Los Angeles.
Aperture members came together for a private tour of the new David Wojnarowicz exhibition at the Whitney Museum.
Shani Jamila, Larry Ossei-Mensah, and Teju Cole discuss travel, mobility, and the meaning of images.
Where do artists go for inspiration? For some, it’s a museum, for others, it’s the stacks.
An artist and filmmaker contends with Iranian identity.
How do photographs express a moment of rapid change in society, politics, beauty, and self-expression?
The celebrated photojournalist James Nachtwey has covered global conflicts for four decades. But in his current retrospective, politics is an afterthought.
